Dataset of pollen morphological traits of 56 dominant species among desert vegetation in the eastern arid central Asia
Kai-Qing Lu,
Gan Xie,
Min Li,
Jin-Feng Li,
Anjali Trivedi,
David K. Ferguson,
Yi-Feng Yao,
Yu-Fei Wang
Affiliations
Kai-Qing Lu
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Gan Xie
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Min Li
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Jin-Feng Li
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Anjali Trivedi
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
David K. Ferguson
University of Vienna, Institute of Palaeontology, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna A-1090, Austria
Yi-Feng Yao
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; Corresponding author. Fax: 86 10 62590833.
Yu-Fei Wang
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China; Corresponding author at: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China. Fax: 86 10 62590833.
The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled “Pollen spectrum, a cornerstone for tracing the evolution of the eastern central Asian desert” (JQSR 5260) (Lu et al., 2018) [1] In this paper, we supply a dataset, which provides a descriptive and general summary of pollen characteristic of desert dominant species in the eastern arid central Asia (ACA). The other important component is the illustration on pollen grains traits under light microscopy (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Pollen grains of 56 species are extracted from voucher specimens from the PE herbarium at the Institute of Botany. It is worth noting that these species own special distribution patterns in China. The distribution maps are plotted using the Google Maps and the species distribution data at the county level supplied by the Chinese Virtual Herbarium (http://www.cvh.ac.cn/). Keywords: Arid central Asia, Desert vegetation, Pollen morphological traits, Temperate desert
