New contributions to the flora of Myanmar Ⅰ

Ding, Hong‐Bo; Yang, Bin; Zhou, Shi-Shun; Maw, Mya Bhone; Maung, Kyaw Win; Tan, Yun‐Hong

doi:10.1016/j.pld.2019.05.002

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“…Some of these new genera result from recent molecular studies that have changed the status of previously published species. The three newly recorded families are Petrosaviaceae ( Jin and Mint, 2018 ), Triuridaceae ( Jin et al., 2018 ), and Polyosmaceae ( Ding et al, 2019a ). The 34 newly recorded genera belong to 21 families ( Fig.…”

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“…Many taxa new to science as well as many new records for Myanmar have been found (e.g. Jin et al., 2018 ; Kang et al, 2018 ; Ding et al, 2019a ; Rodda et al., 2019 ; Tanaka et al, 2019b ), and these botanical investigations have also contributed to taxonomic revisions (e.g. Ruchisansakun et al, 2018 ; Tanaka and Aung, 2019 ; Ding et al, 2019b ; Yang et al, 2019 ; Maw et al, 2020 ), checklists ( Tanaka et al., 2006 ; Khine et al, 2017 ; Hughes et al., 2019 ; Aung et al, 2020 ), and field guides ( Fujikawa et al, 2008 ; Kang et al, 2017 ; Tanaka et al, 2019a ).…”

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Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

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Myanmar is botanically rich and floristically diverse: one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. However, Myanmar is still very unevenly explored, and until a plant checklist was published in 2003, relatively little work was done on its flora. This checklist included 11,800 species of spermatophytes in 273 families. Since this checklist was published, the botanical exploration of Myanmar has accelerated and there have been many additional publications. We therefore surveyed the literature of taxonomic contributions to Myanmar’s vascular flora over the last 20 years (2000–2019) and compiled a list of new and newly described taxa. Our list includes 13 genera, 193 species, 7 subspecies, 19 varieties, and 2 forms new to science; and 3 families, 34 genera, 347 species, 4 subspecies, 7 varieties, and 1 form newly recorded in Myanmar. Altogether, they represent 91 families and 320 genera. Most of the new discoveries belong to 15 families, with more than 25% (146 taxa) belonging to Orchidaceae. These new discoveries are unevenly distributed in the country, with about 41% of the newly discovered species described from Kachin State in northeast Myanmar. This reflects the incompleteness of our current knowledge of the flora of Myanmar and the urgent need for a greatly expanded effort. The completion of the flora of Myanmar requires more fieldwork from north to south, taxonomic studies on new and existing collections, and some mechanism that both coordinates the efforts of various international institutions and initiatives and encourages continued international cooperation. In addition, producing modern taxonomic treatments of the flora of Myanmar requires the participation of experts on all vascular plant families and genera. There is also an urgent need to attract young scientists to plant taxonomy, to work on inventories, identification, nomenclature, herbarium work, and comparative studies.

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“…In addition, some literature provides information on specimens from Myanmar that can be cited as specimen-based species occurrences in Myanmar (Kurzweil and Lwin 2015, Tanaka et al 2015, Watthana et al 2015, Aung et al 2017, Jin and Kyaw 2017, Yang et al 2017, Kurzweil and Ormerod 2018, Ding et al 2019, Kang et al 2019, Mu et al 2019, Ya et al 2019.…”

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“…As for taxonomic status, we followed the updated classification of Orchidaceae (Chase et al 2015) and all relevant papers of orchid taxonomy and systematics (Pridgeon et al 2001, 2005, Chen et al 2009, Gardiner 2012, Gardiner et al 2013, Jin et al 2014, Vermeulen et al 2014, Raskoti et al 2016, Raskoti et al 2017, Govaerts 2018, Ng et al 2018. In addition, all papers of new species descriptions and new records of Myanmar orchid flora were reviewed to identify the species occurrences and distribution in Myanmar , Roberts et al 2008, Chen et al 2009, Tanaka et al 2010, Ormerod 2012, Pedersen et al 2011, Kurzweil and Lwin 2012a, b, Kurzweil 2013, Kurzweil and Lwin 2014, Aung et al 2017, Jin and Kyaw 2017, Koopowitz et al 2017, Yang et al 2017, Kurzweil and Ormerod 2018, Ding et al 2019, Kang et al 2019, Mu et al 2019, Ya et al 2019.…”

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An annotated checklist of Myanmar orchid flora

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Myanmar is situated in Southeast Asia, where species richness and diversity are very high. Myanmar orchid flora is very rich, but still poorly known because botanical explorations have sharply decreased in Myanmar since 1950. The present study provides a checklist of Myanmar orchid flora which includes 1040 species and 151 genera currently known from Myanmar, based on the herbarium specimens, literature and online databases. The number of species is increased by approximately 200 species more than that given in the checklist of Kress et al. (2003), mainly due to recent discoveries of new species to science and new records for Myanmar. There are 76 endemic species of Orchidaceae in Myanmar. It is estimated that ca. 150–300 species still remain as unidentified and are expected to be discovered in further studies on Myanmar orchid flora.

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“…Belonging to the world biodiversity research hotspot areas, it is estimated that there are about 2500 vascular plant species on Mt. Victoria and a number of endemic, relict and new species have been found in this area (Cowley 1982;Tanaka et al 2010b;Zhou et al 2018;Ding et al 2019). We carried out field expeditions in this area since 2016, sponsored by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in cooperation with the Forest Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar.…”

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Ophiorrhiza monsvictoriae (Rubiaceae, Rubioideae), a new species from Myanmar

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A new species, Ophiorrhiza monsvictoriae S.S.Zhou & L.D.Duan, discovered at Natma Taung (Mt.Victoria) National Park, Chin State, Myanmar, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to O. dulongensis, but differs from the latter by its stipules broadly triangular, 2–4 mm long, inflorescence axillary, 1-flowered, bracts lanceolate to subulate, 1–2 mm long, puberulous, calyx pilose, 1–2 mm long, lobes and tube equal length, corolla narrowly funnelform, 15 mm long, puberulous outside.

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New contributions to the flora of Myanmar Ⅰ

Cited by 17 publications

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Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019

An annotated checklist of Myanmar orchid flora

Ophiorrhiza monsvictoriae (Rubiaceae, Rubioideae), a new species from Myanmar

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