About the Authors

Li Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Zhi-Qiang Wu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum London, London, United Kingdom, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhi-Qiang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Zhi-Qiang Wu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Nadia Bystriakova

Affiliation Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum London, London, United Kingdom

Stephen W. Ansell

Affiliation Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum London, London, United Kingdom

Qiao-Ping Xiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jochen Heinrichs

Affiliation Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Harald Schneider

h.schneider@nhm.ac.uk (HS); zhangxc@ibcas.ac.cn (X-CZ)

Affiliations Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum London, London, United Kingdom

Xian-Chun Zhang

h.schneider@nhm.ac.uk (HS); zhangxc@ibcas.ac.cn (X-CZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS X-CZ. Performed the experiments: LW Z-QW. Analyzed the data: LW NB SWA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW Z-QW Q-PX JH. Wrote the paper: LW HS.