Libing Zhang

Title: Associate Curator

Email: Libing.Zhang@mobot.org (gonggashan@gmail.com)

Web-link of Research Group: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/curators/zhang.shtml

Selected publications:

Xu K-W, M-D Deng, L Zhou, H Shang, L Zhang, C-X Li, CJ Rothfels, D Lorence, KR Wood, TA Ranker, TN Lu, X-M Zhou, R Knapp, Z-R He, Y-H Yan, X-F Gao & L-B Zhang. 2025. Phylogeny and biogeography of the fern genus Hymenasplenium (Aspleniaceae), with special reference to island speciation. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63: 1217-1234.

Zhang L, Z-L Liang, X-P Fan, NT Lu, X-M Zhou, H-J Wei, L-B Zhang. 2024. The Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot for ferns: Updated phylogeny, hidden diversity, and biogeography of the java fern genus Leptochilus (Polypodiaceae). Plant Diversity 46: 698-712.

Zhou X-M & L-B Zhang. 2023. Phylogeny, character evolution, and classification of Selaginellaceae. Plant Diversity 45: 630-684.

Zhou X-M, J-J Yang, R Pollawatn, R Knapp, B Parris, M Sundue, TA Ranker, Z-L Liang, L Zhou, NT Lu, TT Luong, X Wan, Z-R He, J Zhao, L Zhang, L-B Zhang. 2023. A global phylogeny of grammitid ferns (Polypodiaceae) and its systematic implications. Taxon 72: 974-1018.

Wan X, L Zhang, S Lehtonen, H Tuomisto, D-W Zhang, X-F Gao, L-B Zhang. 2023. Five long-distance dispersals shaped the major intercontinental disjunctions in Tectariaceae s.l. (Polypodiales, Polypodiopsida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186: 107845.

Shang H, Z-Q Xue, Z-L Liang, M Kessler, R Pollawatn, TN Lu, Y-F Gu, X-P Fan, Y-H Tan, L Zhang, X-M Zhou, X Wan, L-B Zhang. 2023. Splitting one species into 22: an unusual tripling of molecular, morphological, and geographical differentiation in the fern family Didymochlaenaceae (Polypodiales). Cladistics 39: 273-292.

Nie L-Y, L Zhang, Z-L Liang, R. Pollawatn, Y-H Yan, NT Lu, R Knapp, X Wan, D Cicuzza, X-X Chen, H-F Chen, A-H Wang, Y-J Liao, F-G Wang, L-B Zhang. 2022. Phylogeny, character evolution, and biogeography of the fern genus Bolbitis (Dryopteridaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 178: 107633.

Zhang L, L-B Zhang. 2022. Phylogeny, character evolution, and classification of the fern family Ophioglossaceae based on Sanger sequence data, plastomes, and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 173 (2022): 107512.

Zhou X-M, J Zhao, J-J Yang, T Le Pechon, L Zhang, L-B Zhang. 2022. Plastome structure, evolution, and phylogeny of Selaginella. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 169: 107410.

Fan X-P, TN Lu, C-X Li, R Knapp, H He, X-M Zhou, L Zhang, X-F Gao, L-B Zhang. 2022. Phylogeny, biogeography, and character evolution in the fern family Hypodematiaceae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166: 107340.

Chen D-K, X-M Zhou, CJ Rothfels, L Shepherd, R Kapp, L Zhang, NT Lu, X-P Fan, X-F Gao, H He, L-B Zhang. 2022. A global phylogeny of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodiales) with the description of a new genus, Brownseyia, from Oceania. Taxon 71 (1): 25

Duan Y-F, M Li, K-W Xu, L Zhang, L-B Zhang. 2021. Protect China's cave habitats. Science 374 (6568). DOI: 10.1126/science.abm5389.

Zhang L, X-M Zhou, Z-L Liang, X-P Fan, NT Lu, M-S Song, R Knapp, X-F Gao, H Sun, L-B Zhang. 2020. Phylogeny and classification of the tribe Lepisoreae (Polypodiaceae; pteridophyta) with the description of a new genus, Ellipinema gen. nov., segregated from Lepisorus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 148: 106803.

Lu T.N., Zhou, X.-M., Zhang, L., Knapp, R., Li, C.-X. Fan, X.-P., Zhou, L., Wei, H.-J., Lu, J.-M., Xu, B., Peng, Y.-L. Gao, X.-F., L-B Zhang. 2020. A global plastid phylogeny of the cliff fern family Woodsiaceae and a two-genus classification of Woodsiaceae with the description of Woodsimatium nothogen. nov. Taxon 68: 1149-1172.

Xu K-W, Zhang L, Rothfels CJ, Smith AR, Viane, R, Lorence D, Wood KR, Chen C-W, Knapp R, Zhou L, Lu TN, Zhou X-M, Wei H-J, Fan Q, Chen S-F, Ciccuza D, Gao X-F, Liao W-B & L-B Zhang. 2019. A global plastid phylogeny of the fern genus Asplenium (Aspleniaceae). Cladistics 36: 22