Caryophyllaceae is a large angiosperm family, with many species being utilized as ornamental or medicinal plants in Korea, addition to several endangered that are managed by the government. In this study, we used DNA barcoding for accurate identification of Korean Caryophyllaceae. A total 78 taxa (n = 215) were sequenced based on three chloroplast regions (rbcL, matK, and psbA–trnH) nuclear rib...

The Hengduan Mountains region (HMR) on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, supports a high diversity of herbs, particularly in its subalpine to alpine ecosystems, due altitude and cool temperate climate. Current understanding formation such herbaceous richness is based chiefly molecular phylogenies; however, direct geological evidence lacking because herbs are rarely preserved as macroscopic foss...

Eighty-six important findings of 54 species vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and fungi acquired lately from the Murmansk Region are reported. The were defined as if they red-listed in Russia and/or Region, new for protected areas, represented other particularly rare known not more than five locations well northernmost localities Europe or globally. Three fungal (Phaeolus schweinitzii, Phell...