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      An annotated checklist of Myanmar orchid flora

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          Myanmar is situated in Southeast Asia, where species richness and diversity are very high. Myanmar orchid flora is very rich, but still poorly known because botanical explorations have sharply decreased in Myanmar since 1950. The present study provides a checklist of Myanmar orchid flora which includes 1040 species and 151 genera currently known from Myanmar, based on the herbarium specimens, literature and online databases. The number of species is increased by approximately 200 species more than that given in the checklist of Kress et al. (2003), mainly due to recent discoveries of new species to science and new records for Myanmar. There are 76 endemic species of Orchidaceae in Myanmar. It is estimated that ca. 150–300 species still remain as unidentified and are expected to be discovered in further studies on Myanmar orchid flora.

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                Journal
                PhytoKeys
                PhytoKeys
                3
                urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:F7FCE910-8E78-573F-9C77-7788555F8AAD
                PhytoKeys
                Pensoft Publishers
                1314-2011
                1314-2003
                2020
                10 January 2020
                : 138
                : 49-112
                Affiliations
                [1 ] State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
                [2 ] Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar Forest Research Institute, Forest Department Yezin Myanmar
                [3 ] Yunnan Forestry Technological College, Kunming, Yunnan, China Yunnan Forestry Technological College Yunnan China
                [4 ] Forest Research Institute, Forest Department, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yezin China
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Xiaohua Jin ( xiaohuajin@ 123456ibcas.ac.cn )

                Academic editor: Yun-Hong Tan

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6765-598X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-0526-2632
                Article
                36144
                10.3897/phytokeys.138.36144
                6969046
                9f412126-f2e1-44cb-b9c2-c03ea611d9c7
                Ye Lwin Aung, Aye Thin Mu, Mung Htoi Aung, Qiang Liu, Xiao-Hua Jin

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 13 May 2019
                : 07 October 2019
                Funding
                1. Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2. National Natural Science Foundation of China
                Categories
                Checklist
                Orchidaceae
                Taxonomy
                Asia

                Plant science & Botany
                orchidaceae ,checklist,herbarium specimens,myanmar
                Plant science & Botany
                orchidaceae , checklist, herbarium specimens, myanmar

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