Plants and fungi of south-central China
A biodiversity portal for the Sino-Himalayan region
The mountains of south-central China are widely regarded as a global biodiversity hotspot. This site documents primary data about plants and fungi from the Hengduan Mountains and adjacent areas of south-central China, including the Gaoligong Mountains and Tibetan Himalaya. Our database emphasizes specimens and place names.
- Browse or search for specimens
- Search the multilingual gazetteer for georeferenced place names (Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Chinese, Tibetan) More about the gazetteer...
- Navigate the collecting localities in Google Earth
The Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains project has been supported by the National Science Foundation through awards DEB-9705795 and DEB-0321846. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.