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Name:
BAI Lin
Education:
Ph.D
Positions:
 
Academic title:
Associate Professor
Postal Code:
666303
Subject categories:
Botany
Mailing Address:
XTBG, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China
E-mail:
bailin@xtbg.ac.cn

Resume:
 

Education

PhD: South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2016

B.Sc.: Yunnan University, China, 2010

Working experience

2026.1–present: Associate Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2020.10–2025.12: Chun Woon-Young Associate Professor, Plant Science Research Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2020.3–2020.9: Research Associate, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2016.8–2020.2: Post-doc, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Research interests

Plant taxonomy and phylogenetics, especially on Zingiberaceae and Mimosoideae (Fabaceae)


Direction:
 

Achievements:
 

Article:
 

1. Bai, L., Ding, H.B., & Li, Y.L. 2025. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China VIII: Zingiber purpureum subsp. perdurans (Zingiberaceae: Zingiberoideae), a new subspecies from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 694: 264–270. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.694.3.5

2. Bai, L.* 2025. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China VII: the identity of Z. bambusifolium and a new subspecies. Phytotaxa 689: 40–52. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.689.1.4

3. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., & Xia, N.H. 2024. Typification of names relevant for the revision of Zingiber Mill. (Zingiberaceae) in China. Taxon 73: 586–614. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13115

4. Bai, L.* 2024. Notes on Albizia (Leguminosae—Caesalpinioideae—mimosoid clade) in China. Phytotaxa 633: 189–214. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.633.3.1

5. Bai, L., & Xia, N.H. 2024. A preliminary study of the morphological variation of rhizomes in Zingiber Mill. and its role in taxonomy. Phytotaxa 647: 53–90. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.647.1.4

6. Jin, J.Y., Chen, J., & Bai, L.* 2024. Globba ruiliensis (Zingiberaceae), a new synonym of G. multiflora. Phytotaxa 635: 287–291. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.635.4.3

7. Wang, Q.L., Yuan, L.X., & Bai, L. *2024. Zingiber inodorum (Zingiberaceae: Zingiberoideae), a new species of Z. sect. Cryptanthium from Hainan, China. Phytotaxa 653: 281–289. https://doi.org/10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.653.3.7

8. Jin, J.Y., Wang, Y.H., Xia, N.H., & Bai, L.* 2023. Globba praetermissa (Zingiberaceae), a new species of G. sect. Globba from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 598: 173–181. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.598.2.7

9. Bai, L., Xia, N., & Leong-Škorničková, J. 2022. (2905) Proposal to reject the name Pacoseroca (Zingiberaceae). Taxon 71: 907–908. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12775

10. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., & Xia, N. 2023. Typification of Adanson's generic name Pacoseroca (Zingiberaceae) and its implications. Taxon 72: 151–158. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12773

11. Bai, L., Maslin, B.R., & Xia, N.-H. 2021. Senegalia propinqua (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), a new species from the Yuanjiang dry-hot valley in south-central Yunnan Province, China. Phytotaxa 522: 38–46. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.522.1.4

12. Bai, L., Hu, X., He, J., & Tian, Z. 2021. New records of Hedychium hookeri (Zingiberaceae) from China and Myanmar. Phytotaxa 494: 237–243. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.494.2.7

13. Ye, X.-E., Leong-Škorničková, J., Bai, L., & Xia, N.-H. 2021. Taxonomic studies on Amomum (Zingiberaceae) in China III: Amomum fangdingii, a new species from Guangxi. Phytotaxa 490: 263-270. https://doi.org/10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.490.3.4

14. Bai, L.*, Maslin, B.R., Triboun, P., Xia, N.H., & Leong-Škorničková, J*. 2019. Unravelling the identity and nomenclatural history of Zingiber montanum, and establishing Z. purpureum as the correct name for Cassumunar ginger. Taxon 68: 1334-1349.

15. Maslin, B.R.*, Ho, B.C., Sun, H. & Bai, L.* 2019. Revision of Senegalia in China, and notes on introduced species of Acacia, Acaciella, Senegalia and Vachellia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Plant Diversity 41: 353-480.

16. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., & Xia, N.H.* 2015. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China I: Zingiber kerrii and the synonymy of Z. menghaiense and Z. stipitatum. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 67:129-142.

17. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., & Xia, N.H.* 2015. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China II: Zingiber tenuifolium (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 227:092-098.

18. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., Xia, N.H.*, & Ye, Y.S. 2016. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China III: Z. ventricosum, a new species from Yunnan, and notes on three closely related species. Phytotaxa 261(2): 101-120.

19. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., Li, D. Z., & Xia, N. H.* 2018. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China IV: Z. pauciflorum sp. nov. from Yunnan. Nordic Journal of Botany 36: njb-01534.

20. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., Xia, N.H., & Li, D.Z.* Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China VI: Z. leucochilum, a new species from Sichuan. Nordic Journal of Botany: e01840.

21. Ye, X.E., Bai, L., Ye, Y.S., Xia, N.H.*, & Leong-Škorničková, J.* 2018. Taxonomic studies of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) in China II: transfer of Hornstedtia tibetica to Amomum and supplementary description of H. hainanensis. Plant Systematics and Evolution 304: 1165-1180.

22. Chen, J., Xia, N.H.*, & Bai, L. 2019. A new combination in Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) from China, Z. fallax. Nordic Journal of Botany 37: e02230

23. Ye, Y.S., Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., & Xia, N.H.* 2015. Zingiber hainanense (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Hainan, China. Phytotaxa 217:73-79.

24. Zhang, J.F. *, Bai, L. *, Xia, N.H., & Peng, Z.Q. 2015. Hoya yingjiangensis (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideaea), a new campanulate flowered species from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 219:283-288.

25. Tong, Y.H., Chen, F.L., Ran, J.C., Bai, L., & Xia, N.H.* 2018. Teucrium chowii Y.H.Tong & N.H.Xia, a new name to replace T. integrifolium C.Y.Wu & S.Chow. Phytotaxa 309:99-100.

26. Funakoshi, H., Bai, L., Im, H.-T., & Ikeda, H. 2015. Eureka! Chaos Unleashed: Deciphering the taxonomic complex of Zingiber mioga of Japan, Korea and China. In: Organization, B.G., editor. Seventh Symposium on the Zingiberaceae. Botanical Garden Organization Thailand. p 18.

27. Bai, L., Leong-Škorničková, J., & Xia, N.H. 2015. Taxonomic studies on Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) in China. In: Organization, B.G., editor. Seventh Symposium on the Zingiberaceae. Botanical Garden Organization Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand. p 28.

28. Zhang, D., Yang, L., Ben-Hong, L.I., Bai, L., Ding, K.Y. *, & Wang, Y.H. 2010. The Karyotypes of Four Species of Apiaceae from Yunnan, China. Journal of Wuhan Botanical Research 28:540-543.


Community service:
 

Commitment to research the situation:
 

1. Yunnan Province Postdoctoral Orientation Project, Molecular systematic study of Zingiber, 160,000 RMB, 2017.1–2019.12

2. Yunnan Province Fund, Young Scientists Fund, Taxonomic study of Zingiber in China, 50,000 RMB, 2021.4–2024.3

3. Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan, Young Basic Research Project, Taxonomic study of Albizia in China, 50,000 RMB, 2022.4–2024.3

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund, Taxonomic study of the Zingiber sect. Cryptanthium (Zingiberaceae), 300,000 RMB, 2024.1–2026.12

5. Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Sustaining Project, Taxonomic study of Archidendron in China, 100,000 RMB, 2025.1–2026.12