Plant Cataloguing in China: Past,Present and Future
中国植物分类编目的过去、现在和将来

Dating at least as far back asShen Nong' s Herbal Classic,China has had a systematic plant catalog.However,the development of ancient plant catalogs mainly follows herbal tradition and concentrates on practical purposes such as medicine,food,and garden aesthe-tics,which has tended to limit scientific classification compared to the West.In this paper,we conducted an overall review of the history of Chinese plant cataloging and a comprehensive comparison of all finished or ongoing Floras in the current provin...