fruit type of 9370 species in Yunnan Province, China.xlsx

This dataset includes 9370 seed plant species, belonging to three climate regions in Yunnan Province,
southwest China (21°09′–29°15′N and 97°32′–106°12′ E). The three regions are
similar in area, but differ greatly in climate, geography, and vegetation. The southern region has a tropical monsoon climate and contains
a tropical flora that was shaped by the strike-slip extrusion of Indochina
plate. The northwestern region has a temperate climate and contains a temperate
flora shaped by the uplift of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau. The central region
has a subtropical climate and contains a subtropical flora with a combination
of nearly equal proportions of species from both northwestern and southern
floras. The overall floras of
the regions combined are representative of East Asia.A comprehensive list of the native seed plants of the above floras was
obtained from several floristic inventories (Peng
1998, Zhu and Yan 2009, 2012, Zhu 2015), the Flora of Yunnan (Wu 1977-2006), and the database of seed plants
from herbarium of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The
nomenclature of these species was checked and standardized according to The
Plant List version 1.1 (TPL, available at http://www.theplantlist.org). All the
intraspecific taxa (e.g., subspecies, variety and forma) and introduced species
were excluded. In total, 9,370 seed plant species were included in this study, belonging
to 1,860 genera and 212 families. Fruit type (fleshy vs. dry fruit) and plant growth form (woody vs.
herbaceous) data were collected from published floras: Flora Repubulicae Popularis Sinicae (Flora
Repubulicae Popularis Sinicae Editorial Committee 1959-2004), the Flora of Yunnan (Wu 1977-2006), and Iconographia
cormophytorum sinicorum (Institute of
Botany, 1972-2002). For some species, there was no information in the
published floras, so their fruit type and growth form were based on Chinese Virtual Herbarium
(http://www.cvh.ac.cn/) and Plant Photo
Bank of China (http://www.plantphoto.cn/). Fruits (sometimes dispersal
diaspores) were classified as fleshy if there were apparent fleshy pericarps or
appendages when mature; otherwise, they were classified as dry.