Rong Li
Editors, Plant Diversity
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy and biogeography, plant systematics and evolution
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy and biogeography, plant systematics and evolution
Title: Professor
Email: lirong@mail.kib.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~lirong
Selected publications:
Rong Li, Heng Li. 2013. A new species of Hydrocotyle (Umbelliferae) from western Yunnan, China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 51: 223–223.
Rong Li, Jun Wen. 2013. Phylogeny and biogeography of Dendropanax (Araliaceae), an amphi-Pacific disjunct genus between tropical/subtropical Asia and the neotropics. Systematic Botany 38: 536–551.
Rong Li, Pengfei Ma, Jun Wen, Tingshuang Yi. 2013. Complete sequencing of five Araliaceae chloroplast genomes and the phylogenetic implications. PLoS ONE 8: e78568.4
Rong Li, Jun Wen. 2014. Phylogeny and biogeography of Asian Schefflera (Araliaceae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 52: 431–449.
Rong Li, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Jie Yang, Yuhua Wang. 2015. A phylogenetically informed delineation of floristic regions within a biodiversity hotspot in Yunnan, China. Scientific Reports 5: 9396.
Rong Li, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Haiying Yu, Heng Li. 2015. Seed plant phylogenetic diversity and species richness in conservation planning within a global biodiversity hotspot in eastern Asia. Conservation Biology 29: 1552–1562.
Rong Li, Jun Wen. 2016. Phylogeny and diversification of Chinese Araliaceae based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54: 453–467.
Rong Li. 2016. Using a mega-phylogeny of seed plants to test for non-random patterns of areal-types across the Chinese tree of life. Plant Diversity 38: 283–288.
Rong Li, Lishen Qian, Hang Sun. 2018. Current progress and future prospects in phylofloristics. Plant Diversity 40: 141–146.
Rong Li, Juan Yue. 2020. A phylogenetic perspective on the evolutionary processes of floristic assemblages within a biodiversity hotspot in eastern Asia. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 58: 413–422.
Juan Yue, Rong Li. 2021. Phylogenetic relatedness of woody angiosperm assemblages and its environmental determinants along a subtropical elevational gradient in China. Plant Diversity 43: 111–116.
Rong Li, Hugh A. McAllister. 2025. A new species of Sorbus (Rosaceae) from western Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 693: 95–100.