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: <i>Flora Repubulicae Popularis Sinicae</i> (Flora Repubulicae Popularis Sinicae Editorial Committee 1959-2004), the <i>Flora of Yunnan</i> (Wu 1977-2006), and <i>Iconographia cormophytorum sinicorum</i> (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 <i>Chinese Virtual Herbarium</i> (http://www.cvh.ac.cn/) and <i>Plant Photo Bank of China</i> (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.<br>