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A checklist of the cultivated plants of Yunnan (PR China)

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Based on literature sources and the authors’ field surveys in the past 20 years (particularly in 2008 and 2009), a checklist of cultivated plants of Yunnan (Southwest China) was compiled. It contains 1,701 taxa belonging to 1,562 different species, 837 genera and 190 families. The alphabetically ordered articles for the taxa contain the botanical name, the plant family, Chinese name and folk names, details of plant uses, information about the plant’s regional distribution, places of origin, and references to relevant, mostly Yunnan literature sources. The checklist provides a useful tool for the exploration of plant genetic resources and may be equally interesting for agronomists, horticulturists, botanists, ethnobotanists and others who are interested in cultivated plants.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Dr. Peter Hanelt, who encouraged us to study plant genetic resources. We thank Alex Weiss for his editing the English. This study was supported financially by the Ministry of Education of China (B08044 & MUC 985), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-Z-0925), the Ministry of Science and Technology (2008FY110400-2-2), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS/AP/109080).

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  1. Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650204, Kunming, China

    Chun-Yan Li, Chun-Yan Yang & Chun-Lin Long

  2. College of Life Science and Technology, Honghe University, 661100, Mengzi, China

    Chun-Yan Li

  3. Honghe Institute of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, 661300, Hekou, China

    Guang-Yong Zhang

  4. Department of Agrobiodiversity, Institute of Crop Science, Kassel University, 34109, Witzenhausen, Germany

    Karl Hammer

  5. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, 100081, Beijing, China

    Chun-Lin Long

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This paper is dedicated to Peter Hanelt on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Due to his first missions for studying and collecting cultivated plants in China in 1956 and 1958 under the guidance of his admired teacher Prof. R. Mensfeld he developed a deep appreciation of China’s rich flora (Danert et al., Danert and Hanelt). During his latest mission in China (1988) he met with one of the authors of this paper (Ch.-L. L.) and planted lasting enthusiasm for plant diversity research.

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Li, CY., Zhang, GY., Hammer, K. et al. A checklist of the cultivated plants of Yunnan (PR China). Genet Resour Crop Evol 58, 153–164 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-010-9638-5

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