After 25 years of hard work and collaboration,Flora of China,the English-language revision of the Chinese masterpiece Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae(FRPS),was completed and published in full in September 2013.Composed of 25 volumes of text and 25 volumes of illustrations,Flora of China is the first modern Englishlanguage account of the approximately 31,000 species of vascular plants of China,including about 8,000 species of medicinal and economically important plants,and about7,500 species of trees and shrubs.Upon completion,it became the world’s biggest publication for describing plants native to China.China is a country with large plant diversity.It is the world’s third largest reserve of fl ora,home to 31,365 species After 25 years of hard work and collaboration, Flora of China, the English-language revision of the Chinese masterpiece Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS), was completed and published in full in September 2013.Composed of 25 volumes of text and 25 volumes of illustrations, Flora of China is the first modern Englishlanguage account of the approximately 31,000 species of vascular plants of China, including about 8,000 species of medicinal and economically important plants, and about 7,500 species of trees and shrubs who completion, it became the world’s biggest publication for describing plants native to China.China is a country with large plant diversity.It is the world’s third largest reserve of fl ora, home to 31,365 species