Participants included (left to right, back row) Gong Xiaolin, Lisa Pepper, Alexandra Wortley, Anthony Brach, Yang Qiner, Nick Turland, Bill McNamara, Xia Bing, Zhang Xianchun, Chen Shilong, Mark Watson, Zhang Libing, Ching-I Peng, Fu Chengxin; (front row) Mike Gilbert, Ihsan Al-Shehbaz, Bruce Bartholomew, Dave Boufford, Peter Raven, Hong Deyuan, Steve Blackmore, Hu Chiming, Li Dezhu, and Ze Pingluo.
We express our thanks to Prof. Hong Deyuan and Prof. Fu Cheng-xin, Laboratory of Systematic Evolutionary Botany and Biodiversity, Zhejiang University for organizing the editorial meeting.