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“Forest Botany Geography in China”. These monographs analyzed and studied botany and flora in
the Qinling region from different points of view.
It is especially worth noting that the “Botany Dictionary of Qinling”, published by the Science
Publishing Company, was written by the Northwest Botany Research Institute in 1974-1985. The
dictionary detailed records and narrates the botany resource in the Qinling region for the first time and
three volumes have been published, of which first volume has 5 books. The dictionary detailed
morphological characteristics, geographical distribution, and primary application of 1,000 genera and
3,000 species of seed plants and created the right conditions for encouraging further study of botany
and flora. Based on these publications the research of the seed plant flora gradually tend towards
completeness in the Qinling region.
At the beginning of the 1980s, “Chinese Vegetation” (1980) and “Chinese Natural Geography----
Botany Geography” (1983), by Prof Wu Zheng-Yi were published in succession. The botany and
floras, and especially the basic character of seed plant flora, are profoundly discussed in the two
monographs which represent the highest level of research on botanical geography in China. Since
that time, research on phytogeography in the Qinling has come into a new era and voluminous
research on botany flora and vegetation appeared and monographs on flora and vegetation were
published. For example, “Drawing and Dictionary of Farmland Weed in Shaanxi” (1984) was written
by Weinan Farming and Forestry Scientific Research Institute, Agropastoral Office, Shaanxi Province;
“Forest in Shaanxi” was published by forest editor committee of Shaanxi (1989); “Comprehensive
Survey of the Taibai Mountain Preserve” was published by Forestry Office, Shaanxi Province (1989);
Prof Niu Chun-Shan (1990) compiled and published “Tree Dictionary in Shaanxi”; Di Wei-Zhong and
Yu Zhao-Ying (1989) compiled “First Rare and Endangered Protected Plants in Shaanxi Province”.
At that time, many scholars reviewed and studied many aspects of botany and flora in different regions
of the Qinling. For example, Ying Jun-Sheng and Zhang Zhi-Ying studied the Taibaishan Mountain
region; Fu Sheng-Jun investigated the Guangtoushan Mountain region; Lei Ming-De, Tian Lian-Shu
and Zhang Qin-Wei investigate Shuihe river valley on the Qinling south slope; Kang Mo-Yi studied the
Xunhe river valley; Northwest University investigate in Nanwutai region; Shaanxi Normal University
investigate in Xunyangba region; Northwest Forestry University investigate in Huodidang region. From
these investigations and studies, many papers on botany and flora were published.