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Bulletin of Botanical Research ›› 2000, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (1): 12-19.

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THE DISTRITUTION PATTERNS AND FLORISTIC ANALYSIS OF FAMILY PINACEAE OF CHINA

WANG He-sheng   

  1. Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101
  • Received:1998-03-10 Online:2000-03-15 Published:2016-06-14

Abstract: In view of the new advance of research on family Pinaceae and according to the new materials, Chinese plants of Pinaceae containing 10 genera and 95 species are classified into 4 distriution genera-patterns and 25 distribution species-patterns. That is 4 genera North Temperate paterns, 2 genera East Asia and North America disjunction, 3 genera endemic to China and 1 genus Vietnam to South China. The 25 species-patterns belong to respectively the 3 floristic kingdoms(or subkingdoms) of Eurasian Temperate, Malesian, and mainly to East Asiatic. Their characteristics through floristic analysis are mainly distributed in Sino-Himalayan forest sutkingdom and Himalaya-Hengduan mountain region being the distribution and differentiation center, a lot of vicarious distritutions, discontinuous or scattered distritutions as well as some relict distritutions because of the results of environmental change and geographical segregation. These materials and research results may be provided a reference for the research on biodiversity and plant geography of Pinaceae and etc.

Key words: Pinaceae, Distribution pattern, Floristic analysis, China