Chunlei Xiang
Editors, Plant Diversity
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, phylogenomics, rapid radiation
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, phylogenomics, rapid radiation
Title: Professor
Email: xiangchunlei@mail.kib.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://groups.kib.cas.cn/klpb/xcl/
Selected publications:
Ya-Ping Chen, Purayidathkandy Sunojkumar, Robert A. Spicer, Richard G.J. Hodel, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Alan J. Paton, Miao Sun, Bryan T. Drew, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2025. Rapid radiation of a plant lineage sheds light on the assembly of dry valley biomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42: msaf011.
Yue Zhao†, Ya-Ping Chen†, Bryan Drew, Fei Zhao, Maryam Almasi, Orzimat T. Turginov, Jin-Fei Xiao, Yasaman Salmaki*, Xiang-Qin Yu*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2024. Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of Phlomoides (Lamiaceae subfamily Lamioideae) in China: insights from molecular and morphological data. Plant Diversity. 46(4): 462–475.
Jing-Chen Yuan, Ang Liu, Atsuko Takano, Masayuki Maki, Richard G.J. Hodel, Ya-Ping Chen*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2024. Plastid phylogenomics with broad taxon sampling provides insights into the generic delimitation of Paraphlomideae (Lamiaceae). Taxon. 73(4): 1016–1029.
Li-Qiong Jiang, Bryan T. Drew, Watchara Arthan, Guo-Ying Yu, Hong Wu, Yue Zhao, Hua Peng*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2024. Comparative plastome analysis of Arundinelleae (Poaceae, Panicoideae), with implications for phylogenetic relationships and plastome evolution. BMC Genomics. 25:1016.
Yue Zhao†, Fei Zhao†, Yasaman Salmaki, Alan Paton, Jie Cai, Bryan T. Drew, Chonour Mahmoud, Petr Efimov, Orzimat T. Turginov, Cun-Zhu Liang, Ya-Ping Chen*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2023. Home at last: Molecular phylogenetic analyses support subsuming Metastachydium within Phlomoides (Lamiaceae). Taxon. 72(3): 590–606.
Ya-Ping Chen, Turginov Turdimatovich, Maxim Nuraliev, Predrag Lazarević, Bryan T. Drew*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2022. Phylogeny and diversification of the northern temperate genus Dracocephalum s.l. (Lamiaceae). Cladistics. 38(4), 429–451.
Fei Zhao†, Ya-Ping Chen†, Yasaman Salmaki, Bryan T. Drew, Trevor C. Wilson, Anne-Cathrine Scheen, Ferhat Celep, Christian Bräuchler, Mika Bendiksby, Qiang Wang, Dao-Zhang Min, Hua Peng, Richard G. Olmstead, Bo Li*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2021. An updated tribal classification of Lamiaceae based on plastome phylogenomics. BMC Biology. 19: 2.
Ya-Ping Chen†, Ang Liu†, Xun-Lin Yu*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2021. A preliminary phylogenetic study of Paraphlomis (Lamiaceae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Plant Diversity. 43(3): 206–215.
Chun-Lei Xiang†, Hong-Jin Dong†, Sven Landrein, Fei Zhao, Wen-Bin Yu, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Anders Backlund, Hua-Feng Wang, De-Zhu Li*, Hua Peng*. 2020. Revisiting the phylogeny of Dipsacales: new insights from phylogenomic analyses of complete chloroplast genome sequences. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 58(2): 103–117.
Chun-Lei Xiang†, Fei Zhao†, Philip D. Cantino, Bryan T. Drew, Bo Li, En-De Liu*, Dougals E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Hua Peng*. 2018. Molecular systematics of Caryopteris (Lamiaceae) and its allies with reference to the molecular phylogeny of subfamily Ajugoideae. Taxon. 67(2): 376–394.
Guo-Xiong Hu, Atsuko Takano, Bryan T. Drew, En-De Liu, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Hua Peng*, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2018. Phylogeny and staminal evolution of Salvia (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae) in East Asia. Annals of Botany. 122(4): 649–668.
Ya-Ping Chen, Bryan T. Drew, Bo Li, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2016. Resolving the phylogenetic position of Ombrocharis (Lamiaceae), with reference to the molecular phylogeny of tribe Elsholtzieae. Taxon. 65(1): 123–136.
Ya-Ping Chen, Bo Li, Richard G. Olmstead, Philip D. Cantino, En-De Liu, Chun-Lei Xiang*. 2014. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic genus Holocheila (Lamiaceae) inferred from plastid DNA sequences. Taxon. 63(2): 355–366.
Chun-Lei Xiang, Qiang Zhang, Anne-Cathrien Scheen, Philip D. Cantino, Tsuneo Funamoto, Hua Peng*. 2013. Molecular phylogenetics of Chelonopsis (Lamiaceae: Gomphostemmateae) as inferred from nuclear and plastid DNA and morphology. Taxon. 62(2): 375–386.
Chun-Lei Xiang, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Douglas E. Soltis, Hua Peng, Li-Gong Lei*. 2012. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic and critically endangered genus Saniculiphyllum (Saxifragaceae) inferred from combined analysis of plastid and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 64(2): 357–367.