植物多样性与保护研究组成立于2016年9月,以中国热带和东南亚(中南半岛)地区为重点研究区域,综合运用植物分类、植物区系地理和分子系统学方法,研究中国热带及东南亚(中南半岛)的种子植物多样性组成,并探讨其多样性起源和演化关系,以期达到服务社会发展和生物多样性保护的目的。在东南亚中心、国家自然科学基金、生态环境部等项目的资助下,目前重点关注亚洲热带为优势的类群如番荔枝科、姜科、樟科、大戟科、胡椒科、秋海棠属、杜鹃花科树萝卜属等开展分类学研究。2016年8月至2022年在缅甸、老挝、中国(中老边境)开展了10余次大型野外科考,多次被中央电视台报道。在Journal of Systematics and Evolution、Taxon、Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society、Plant Diversity、PhytoKeys、Phytotaxa、Nordic Journal Botany、Taiwania等国际植物分类学主流期刊上共发表植物新分类群(新种、新属、新科)80多个,包括建立被子植物1新科:美丽桐科(Wightiaceae Bo Li, Bing Liu, Su Liu & Y. H. Tan); 2新属:番荔枝科征镒木属(Wuodendron B. Xue, Y. H. Tan & Chaowasku)和大戟科希陶木属(Tsaiodendron Y. H. Tan, H. Zhu & H. Sun),新种70多种,主要集中在姜科、苦苣苔科、番荔枝科、茜草科、兰科、凤仙花科及秋海棠属等。
Plant Diversity and Conservation Group (PDCG) founded in September 2016, we integrated use of plant taxonomy, the floristic geography and molecular systematics methods, to study the flora composition features, phylogenetic and geographic distribution patterns and mechanisms of diverse tropical plants in tropical China and southeast Asia (Indochina). We want to achieve the purpose of serving social development and biodiversity conservation in these areas. With the projects funded by the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China and other projects, taxonomic research is currently focused on the tropical Asia dominant families. From August 2016 to 2022, more than 10 large-scale field expeditions in Myanmar, Laos and China (along the China-Laos border) have been conducted, which have been reported by CCTV for many times. More than 80 taxa (new species, new genus and new family) have been published in Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Taxon, BotanicalJournal of the Linnean Society, Plant Diversity, PhytoKeys, Phytotaxa, Nordic Journal Botany, Taiwania etc. from 2017 to 2022, including one new family of Angiosperm, i.e. Wightiaceae Bo Li, Bing Liu, Su Liu & Y. H. Tan, two new genera, i.e. Wuodendron B. Xue, Y. H. Tan & Chaowasku (Annonaceae) and Tsaiodendron Y. H. Tan,H. Zhu & H. Sun (Euphorbiaceae), ca. 80 new species of vascular plants, mainly belong to Zingiberaceae, Gesneriaceae, Annonaceae, Rubiaceae, Ochidaceae, Balsaminaceae and Begonia.