Ihsan Al-Shehbaz, MO, Brassicaceae; Committee Bruce Bartholomew, CAS, Fagaceae/Cannabaceae/Theaceae/Bromeliaceae; Committee David E. Boufford, A/GH, Berberidaceae/Bretschneideraceae/Cornaceae/Rubus; Committee Paul P.H. But, Hong Kong, Committee Chen Shouliang, NAS, Poaceae/Verbenaceae; Committee Chen Xinqi, PE, Amaryllidaceae/Liliaceae/Orchidaceae/Stemonaceae; Committee Dai Lunkai, PE, Cyperaceae Hong Deyuan, PE, Campanulaceae/Commelinaceae/Scrophulariaceae; Committee Hu Chiming, IBSC, Menispermaceae/Primulaceae Huang Chengchiu, IBSC, na, Committee Joel Jeremie, P, Committee/Chloranthaceae; Committee Simon J. Owens, K, Committee Li Xiwen, KUN, Clusiaceae/Dipterocarpaceae/Hernandiaceae/Lamiaceae/Lauraceae; Committee Peter H. Raven, MO, Onagraceae/Chair W. John Kress, US, Musaceae/Cannaceae/Zingiberaceae; Committee Laurence E. Skog, US, Gesneriaceae/Coriariaceae Wu Zhengyi, KUN, Cannabaceae/Caryophyllaceae/Moraceae/Rhoipteleaceae; Chair Michael G. Gilbert, MO at K, Asclepiadaceae/Dioscoreaceae/Ebenaceae/Euphorbiaceae Michael G. Gilbert, MO at K, Gnetaceae/Piperaceae/Verbenaceae/Moraceae/Portulacaceae Michael G. Gilbert, MO at K, Olacaceae/Santalaceae/Loranthaceae/Rafflesiaceae/Basellaceae Michael G. Gilbert, MO at K, Viscaceae/Aristolochiaceae/Nyctaginaceae; Eur. coord. Chen Jiarui, PE, Cycadaceae/Cynomoriaceae/Haloragaceae/Hippuridaceae/Onagraceae/Theligoniaceae Chen Jiarui, PE, Trapaceae/Urticaceae; Committee Gu Hongya, PEY, Secretary A. Michele Funston, MO, Checklist/Senecio Bao Bojian, PE, Amaranthaceae/Fabaceae/Polygonaceae Anthony R. Brach, MO at A/GH, Saururaceae/Cimicifuga/Cotoneaster Orbelia R. Robinson, CAS, Ranunculaceae; Assistant Mark Watson, E, Apiaceae Nick Turland, MO, Resedaceae/Caryophyllaceae/Paeoniaceae; Assistant Nick Turland, MO, Pittosporaceae/Eucommiaceae/Platanaceae/Connaraceae Zhang Shuren, PE, na Zhu Guanghua, MO, Thalictrum/Orchidaceae/Araceae; Committee Robert A. De Filipps, US, Commelinaceae/Celastraceae Eona M. M. Aitken, E, Regional Advisor Rudolf V. Kamelin, LE, Allium/Boraginaceae/Plumbaginaceae/Oxytropis; Regional Advisor Sigizmund S. Kharkevich, VLA, Regional Advisor Kai Larsen, AAU, Caesalpinoideae/Phytolaccaceae/Flagellariaceae/Restionaceae Kai Larsen, AAU, Centrolepidaceae/Philydraceae/Taccaceae/Zingiberaceae/Costaceae Kai Larsen, AAU, Regional Advisor Jin Murata, MAK, Arisaema/Balanophoraceae; Regional Advisor Ching-I Peng, HAST, Regional Advisor Alexei K. Skvortsov, MHA, Betulaceae/Salicaceae; Regional Advisor W.J.J.O. de Wilde, L, Regional Advisor Robert P. Adams, BAYLU, Juniperus Shinobu Akiyama, TI, Saxifragaceae Crinan Alexander, E, Ribes/Rosaceae G. C. G. Argent, E, Ericaceae Peter Ashton, A/GH, Dipterocarpaceae Andrew C. Bell, A, Aria A. Linn Bogle, NHA, Hamamelidaceae Allan Bornstein, SEMO, Myricaceae Thomas Borsch, BONN, Amaranthaceae Jan Just Bos, WAG, Cordyline/Dracaena Richard K. Brummitt, K, Calystegia C. S. Campbell, MAINE, Amelanchier J. F. N. Cannon, BM, Apiaceae David F. Chamberlain, E, Rhododendron Chang Meichen, SHM, Oleaceae Chang Yongtian, , Fagaceae Martin Cheek, K, Nepenthaceae James Cullen, Cambridge, Saxifragaceae Chen Dezhao, IBSC, Fabaceae Chen Haishan, IBSC, Rutaceae Chen Jie, KUN, Combretaceae/Melastomataceae/Myrsinaceae/Myrtaceae Chen Shilong, , Caryophyllaceae Chen Shoukun, KUN, Aquifoliaceae/Dichapetalaceae/Malpighiaceae/Polygalaceae Chen Tao, IBSC, Rubiaceae Chen Yiling, PE, Asteraceae/Balsaminaceae/Rhamnaceae Zhou Taiyan, NAS, Brassicaceae W. Derek Clayton, K, Poaceae Steven E. Clemants, BKL, Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae/Juncaceae Lincoln Constance, UC, Hydrophyllaceae/Apiaceae Thomas A. Cope, K, Poaceae Michael D. Crisp, CBG, Pittosporaceae W. G. D'Arcy, MO, Solanaceae Robert A. DeFilipps, US, Commelinaceae Elizabeth E. Dickson, Calgary, Malus Ding Zhizun, NAS, Dioscoreaceae/Taccaceae Vladimir Dorofeev, LE, Erysimum Bryan E. Dutton, BKL, Anemone B. E. E. Duyfjes, L, Stemonaceae Thomas S. Elias, NA, Pinaceae Peter K. Endress, Z, Cercidiphyllaceae/Eupteleaceae/Hamamelidaceae/Trochodendraceae Barbara Ertter, UC, Potentilla Robert B. Faden, US, Commelinaceae Fang Chengfu, IFP, Salicaceae Fang Zhenfu, IFP, Salicaceae Fang Mingyuan, SZ, Ericaceae Fang Rhuicheng, KUN, Convolvulaceae/Ericaceae/Hydrophyllaceae/Polemoniaceae Aljos Farjon, K, Cupressaceae Manfred A. Fischer, WU, Veronica Ib Friis, C, Urticaceae Jeanette Fryer, Petersfield, Cotoneaster Fu Dezhi, PE, Ranunculaceae Fu Kunjun, WUK, Crassulaceae Fu Likuo, PE, Araucariaceae/Cephalotaxaceae/Cupressaceae/Ephedraceae/Ginkgoaceae/Gnetaceae/Pinaceae Fu Likuo, PE, Podocarpaceae/Taxaceae/Taxodiaceae/Ulmaceae Fu Liguo, PE, Araucariaceae/Cephalotaxaceae/Cupressaceae/Ephedraceae/Ginkgoaceae/Gnetaceae/Pinaceae Fu Liguo, PE, Podocarpaceae/Taxaceae/Taxodiaceae/Ulmaceae Noboru Fujita, Kyoto U, Hosta Dmitry V. Geltman, LE, Euphorbiaceae Peter Goldblatt, MO, Iridaceae Richard J. Gornall, LTR, Saxifragaceae Alice E. Grabovskaya-Borodina, LE, Ranunculaceae/Polygonaceae Peter S. Green, K, Oleaceae Werner Greuter, B, Asteraceae James W. Grimes, NY, Styracaceae Gu Cuizhi, PE, Begoniaceae/Rosaceae/Saxifragaceae Heidrun Hartmann, HBG, Pedaliaceae/Martyniaceae/Molluginaceae/Aizoaceae He Mingyou, SZ, Ericaceae Ian C. Hedge, E, Lamiaceae/Brassicaceae Wilbert L. Hetterscheid, L, Amorphophallus Vernon Heywood, London, Apiaceae Paul Hiepko, , Opiliaceae Ho Tingnung, HNWP, Gentianaceae/Menyanthaceae Peter C. Hoch, MO, Onagraceae Noel Holmgren, NY, Scrophulariaceae Suk-Pyo Hong, , Polygonaceae Charles N. Horn, SC, Pontederiaceae Richard A. Howard, A/GH, Icacinaceae Hu Jiaqi, FUS, Acanthaceae Hu Lingcheng, SZ, Ericaceae Huang Chenchie, IBSC, Fagaceae/Rutaceae Huang Chengjiu, , Fagaceae Huang Puhua, NEFI, Fabaceae/Lauraceae Huang Shumei, IBSC, Saxifragaceae/Aristolochiaceae/Balanophoraceae Huang Shumei, IBSC, Rafflesiaceae/Saxifragaceae/Styracaceae Ulla-Maj Hultgard, UPS, Parnassia C. J. Humphries, BM, Anthemideae Bertil Hylmo, Sweden, Cotoneaster Hans-Dieter Ihlenfeldt, HBG, Martyniaceae/Pedaliaceae Hiroshi Ikeda, , Rosaceae Charles Jeffrey, LE, Asteraceae/Cucurbitaceae Ji Zhanhe, , Amaryllidaceae/Stemonaceae/Tricyrtis/Veratrum Jia Liangzhi, IBSC, Poaceae Jin Shuying, PE, Saxifragaceae Jin Cunli, Shanghai, Scrophulariaceae Lawrence A. S. Johnson, NSW, Casuarinaceae Stephen L. Jury, RNG, Apiaceae Yuichi Kadota, TKB, Aconitum Shoichi Kawano, Kyoto, Maianthemum Lawrence M. Kelly, , Aristolochiaceae Sylvia Kelso, COCO, Primulaceae Helen Kennedy, UBC, Marantaceae E. Kljuykov, MW, Apiaceae Katsuhiko Kondo, HIRO, Droseraceae Tetsuo Koyama, Nihon U, Smilax/Heterosmilax Robert Kral, VDB, Xyridaceae Lang Kaiyung, PE, Orchidaceae Sophie S. Larsen, AAU, Caesalpinoideae T. Lavrova, na, Apiaceae Katherine T. Lawson, , Stachyuraceae Lee Shukang, IBK, Sapotaceae/Ebenaceae David E. Lemke, SWT, Flacourtiaceae Donald H. Les, CONN, Ceratophyllaceae Antony J.M. Leeuwenberg, WAG, Apocynaceae/Loganiaceae Igor G. Levichev, LE, Gagea/Lloydia Li Anjen, PE, Polygonaceae Li Chaoluan, CDBI, Rosaceae/Vitaceae Li Dezhu, KUN, Poaceae Li Heng, KUN, Araceae/Lemnaceae Li Jie, KUN, Clusiaceae/Dipterocarpaceae Li Liangqian, PE, Ranunculaceae Li Peiqiong, SZG, Betulaceae Li Peichun, SZG, Betulaceae Li Pingtao, CANT, Annonaceae/Apocynaceae/Asclepiadaceae/Calycanthaceae/Euphorbiaceae/Loganiaceae Li Shugang, IBK, Ebenaceae/Fabaceae/Lauraceae/Lythraceae/Sapotaceae Li Zhenyu, PE, Cactaceae/Gesneriaceae/Lentibulariaceae Liang Choufen, IBK, Actinidiaceae/Dilleniaceae/Ochnaceae Liang Songyun, PE, Cyperaceae/Liliaceae Magnus Liden, , Caryophyllaceae, Papaveraceae Lin Laiguan, FNU, Theaceae Lin Qi, , Urticaceae Ling Yong, IBSC, Anthemideae Ling Yuouruen, IBSC, Anthemideae Liu Liang, PE, Poaceae Liu Shangwu, HNWP, Asteraceae Liu Yingxin, LZD, Fabaceae Liu Yuhu, IBSC, Hippocastanaceae/Magnoliaceae/Sabiaceae/Sapindaceae Lo Hsienshui, IBSC, Rubiaceae Lou Xianrei, IBSC, Menispermaceae/Rubiaceae/Sapindaceae Porter P. Lowry II, MO at P, Araliaceae Lu Anmin, PE, Cucurbitaceae/Myricaceae/Juglandaceae/Solanaceae Lu Anming, PE, Cucurbitaceae/Myricaceae/Juglandaceae/Solanaceae Lu Dequan, WUK, Aizoaceae/Basellaceae/Caryophyllaceae/Molluginaceae Lu Dequan, WUK, Nyctaginaceae/Phytolaccaceae/Portulacaceae Lu Lianli, NAS, Brassicaceae/Bretschneideraceae/Droseraceae/Moringaceae/Nepenthaceae/Resedaceae Lu Lingti, PE, Connaraceae/Rosaceae/Saxifragaceae Lu Shenglian, HNWP, Poaceae Ma Jinshuang, BNU, Celastraceae/Euphorbiaceae Ma Weiliang, HSNU, Bromeliaceae/Eriocaulaceae Bryan F. Mathew, K, Iridaceae Hugh McAllister, Ness, Sorbus E. McClintock, UC, Hydrangeoideae John McNeill, E, Caryophyllaceae/Polygonaceae Gordon McPherson, MO, Euphorbiaceae Nina A. Medevdeva, LE, Atriplex Alan W. Meerow, FTG, Amaryllidaceae David J. Middleton, TCD, Apocynaceae/Gaultheria Robert R. Mill, E, Pedicularis/Cephalotaxaceae/Taxaceae Robert R. Mill, E, Ginkgoaceae/Araucariaceae/Pinaceae/Taxodiaceae/Podocarpaceae/ Min Tianlu, KUN, Anacardiaceae/Buxaceae/Callitrichaceae/Coriariaceae/Daphniphyllaceae/Empetraceae Min Tianlu, KUN, Pentaphylaceae/Theaceae Alex K. Monro, , Urticaceae Nancy P. Moreno, SBSC, Clematis John K. Morton, , Caryophyllaceae Sergei Mosyakin, KW, Rumex/Chenopodiaceae/Polygonaceae David F. Murray, ALA, Carex Lytton J. Musselman, ODU, Cuscuta Lorin I. Nevling, ILLS, Thymelaeaceae Mark F. Newman, E, Zingiberaceae Ivan Nielsen, AAU, Mimosoideae Junko Noguchi, Kyoto U, Hemerocallis H. P. Nooteboom, L, Symplocaceae Henry J. Noltie, E, Cyperaceae/Iridaceae/Liliaceae Hiroyoshi Ohashi, TUS, Desmoidieae Hideaki Ohba, TI, Saxifragaceae/Polygonaceae/Violaceae/Kobresia/Rosaceae Mark Olson, MO, Moringaceae Robert Ornduff, UC, Menyanthaceae Bengt Oxelman, , Caryophyllaceae Pan Jintang, HNWP, Saxifragaceae Pan Kaiyu, PE, Gesneriaceae Pan Zejui, NAS, Apiaceae Chong-wook Park, Korea, Polygonaceae Pen Tse-Hsiang, LZU, Plumbaginaceae Peng Hua, KUN, Burseraceae/Hippocrateaceae/Icacinaceae/Meliaceae/Salvadoraceae/Simaroubaceae Peng Tse-Hsiang, LZU, Plumbaginaceae T. D. Pennington, K, Sapotaceae Chamlong Phengklai, BKF, Alangiaceae/Nyssaceae C. Thomas Philbrick, , Podostemaceae Loy R. Phillippe, ILLS, Apiaceae James B. Phipps, UWO, Crataegus Michael G. Pimenov, MW, Apiaceae John J. Pipoly III, BRIT, Myrsinaceae Uzi Plitmann, HUJ, Cuscuta D. Podlech, M, Astragalus James S. Pringle, HAM, Gentianaceae Pu Fating, CDBI, Apiaceae Qin Haining, PE, Alangiaceae/Ceratophyllaceae/Cercidiphyllaceae/Crypteroniaceae Qin Haining, PE, Eleagnaceae/Eupteleaceae/Lardizabalaceae/Lecythidaceae/Nelumbonaceae Qin Haining, PE, Nymphaeaceae/Nyssaceae/Punicaceae/Rhizophoraceae/Sargentodoxaceae Qin Haining, PE, Sonneratiaceae/Trochodendraceae Qiu Huaxing, IBSC, Loranthaceae/Olacaceae/Opiliaceae/Podostemaceae/Proteaceae/Viscaceae Qiu Lienqing, SHM, Oleaceae Richard K. Rabeler, , Caryophyllaceae Suzanne Renner, MO, Melastomataceae Tony A. Reznicek, MICH, Carex Harald Riedl, W, Boraginaceae/Ephedraceae Martyn Rix, South Molton, Fritillaria Norman K. B. Robson, BM, Hypericum K. R. Robertson, ILLS, Rosaceae Thawatchai Santisuk, BKF, Bignoniaceae R. M. K. Saunders, Hong Kong, Burmanniaceae George E. Schatz, MO, Annonaceae Carsten Schirarend, BHUP, Rhamnaceae Sheh Menglan, NAS, Apiaceae Shi Zhu, PE, Asteraceae Tatemi Shimizu, Kanazawa, Balsaminaceae/Lardizabalaceae/Sargentodoxaceae Leila Shultz, Arizona, Artemisia/Seriphidium D. Doel Soejarto, F, Actinidiaceae J. Sojak, PR, Rosaceae James C. Solomon, MO, Vitaceae/Cactaceae Douglas E. Soltis, WSU, Saxifragaceae Rob Soreng, US, Poa Victor G. Soukup, CINC, Paris/Trillium Stephen A. Spongberg, Polly_Hill, Maloideae George Staples, BISH, Convolvulaceae Chris Stapelton, K, Bambusoideae Dennis Stevenson, NY, Cycadaceae W. Douglas Stevens, MO, Asclepiadaceae Peter F. Stevens, A/GH, Vaccinoideae/Clusiaceae Donald E. Stone, DUKE, Juglandaceae Thomas Stützel, ULM, Eriocaulaceae Sun Bixing, YUKU, Poaceae Hiroshi Takahashi, Gifu U, Tricyrtis/Veratrum Michio Tamura, Kinki U, Ranunculaceae Minoru N. Tamura, OSA, Lilium Tang Ya, CDBI, Bombacaceae/Elaeocarpaceae/Malvaceae/Sterculiaceae/Tiliaceae Mats Thulin, , Caryophyllaceae Tseng Yungchien, IBSC, Piperaceae Tsi Zhanhuo, PE, Liliaceae/Orchidaceae Nikolai Tzvelev, LE, Orobanchaceae Sam P. Vander Kloet, ACAD, Vaccinium Warren L. Wagner, , Caryophyllaceae Gary D. Wallace, RSA, Monotropoideae Michael J. Warnock, , Ranunculaceae Wang Wentsai, PE, Gesneriaceae/Ranunculaceae Wang Yinzheng, KUN, Ancistrocladaceae/Caricaceae/Datiscaceae/Passifloraceae/Thymelaeaceae Wang Zhengping, N, Poaceae Wang Zhongren, PE, ferns Suzanne Warwick, DAO, Brassiceae Grady L. Webster, DAV, Euphorbiaceae Wei Zhaofen, IBSC, Saxifragaceae Wei Zhi, ZM, Fabaceae/Oleaceae Anna L. Weitzman, US, Gesneriaceae/Theaceae/Commelinaceae Henk van der Werff, MO, Lauraceae Peter H. Weston, , Proteaceae Alan Whittemore, MO, Ranunculaceae John H. Wiersema, BARC, Nelumbonaceae/Nymphaeaceae/Cabombaceae Dieter H. Wilken, CS, Polemoniaceae C. Melanie Wilmot-Dear, , Urticaceae Karen L. Wilson, NSW, Casuarinaceae Emily W. Wood, A/GH, Clethraceae Wu Guofang, HSNU, Centrolepidaceae/Flagellariaceae/Juncaceae/Philydraceae/Pontederiaceae/Restionaceae/Xyridaceae Wu Delin, IBSC, Burmanniaceae/Cannaceae/Costaceae/Fabaceae/Lowiaceae/Marantaceae/Musaceae/Zingiberaceae Wu Yongfen, IBSC, Magnoliaceae/Sabiaceae/Symplocaceae Wu Zhenlan, HNWP, Poaceae Xia Nianhe, IBSC, Casuarinaceae/Chloranthaceae/Piperaceae/Santalaceae/Saururaceae Xiang Qibai, NF, Araliaceae Xiang Qiuyun, OS, Cornaceae Xin Yiqun, , Ulmaceae/Rhoipteleaceae Xing Gongxia, PE, ferns Xu Jiemei, SZ, Liliaceae Xu Langran, WUK, Fabaceae Xu Tingzhi, KUN, Aceraceae/Staphyleaceae Yang Guang, NAS, Brassicaceae Yang Hanbi, PE, Pedicularis/Ericaceae Yang Qiner, PE, Bixaceae/Cistaceae/Elatinaceae/Flacourtiaceae/Frankeniaceae/Tamaricaceae; committee Yang Qiner, PE, Stachyuraceae/Violaceae Ying Tsunshen, PE, Berberidaceae Zhang Hongda, , Pittosporaceae/Hamamelidaceae/Eucommiaceae/Platanaceae Zhang Yongtian, , Fagaceae Zhang Zhixiang, , Eriocaulaceae Zhang Zhiyun, PE, Bignoniaceae/Eucommiaceae/Martyniaceae/Orobanchaceae/Pedaliaceae Zhang Zhiyun, PE, Pittosporaceae/Hamamelidaceae/Platanaceae/Solanaceae Zhang Zianchun, PE, ferns Zhao Shidong, IFP, Salicaceae Zhao Yutang, NENU, Iridaceae Zhou Lihua, KUN, Caryophyllaceae Zhou Zhekun, , Moraceae/Cannabaceae Zhu Gelin, NWTC, Boraginaceae/Chenopodiaceae Zhu Xiangyun, PE, Fabaceae Zhu Zhengde, NF, Poaceae Svetlana N. Ziman, , Ranunculaceae