Lu Kai-Qing, Xie Gan, Li Min, Li Jin-Feng, Trivedi Anjali, Ferguson David K, Yao Yi-Feng, Wang Yu-Fei
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.
Data Brief. 2018 Mar 31;18:1022-1046. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.03.122. eCollection 2018 Jun.
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/).
本文所呈现的数据与题为《花粉谱：追踪中亚东部沙漠演化的基石》（JQSR 5260）（Lu等人，2018年）[1]的研究论文相关。在本文中，我们提供了一个数据集，该数据集对中亚东部干旱地区（ACA）沙漠优势物种的花粉特征进行了描述性的总体总结。另一个重要组成部分是在光学显微镜（LM）和扫描电子显微镜（SEM）下对花粉粒特征的说明。从植物研究所PE植物标本馆的凭证标本中提取了56个物种的花粉粒。值得注意的是，这些物种在中国拥有特殊的分布模式。分布图是使用谷歌地图以及中国虚拟植物标本馆（http://www.cvh.ac.cn/）提供的县级物种分布数据绘制的。
