Pollen morphology and phylogeny of the tribe Astereae (Compositae). 2016. VI, 312 p. plus 179 full - page plates. gr8vo. Paper bd. - In Chinese, with Latin nomenclature.

The tribe Astereae (Compositae) is worldwide in distribution but with marked concentration in southwestern North America, South America along the Andes, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and includes about 170 genera and 2800 species . There are 28 genera, 224 species of Astereae in China, most of which are distributed in steppe areas in the northwest of China, covering an area of Xinjiang, the Inner Mongolia, southeastern Tibet, northwestern Yunnan, Shichuan and Himalaya area .The plants of Astereae have been diversified strongly and had complicated intrasubtribal and intergenera relationships, raising difficulty in subtribal classification, The existing subtribal classification was provided by Bentham (1873a) who classified Astereae into six subtribal, e.g. Solidagininae, Grangeinae, Bellidinae, Asterinae, Conyzinae and Baccharidinae, meanwhile, he also pointed out that this tribe was "not being divisible into district subtribes", so the subtribal classification that he actually proposed must be regarded as provisional.