“…Studies on plant diversity of Myanmar initiated by the flora publications of Hooker (1872Hooker ( , 1879Hooker ( , 1882Hooker ( , 1885Hooker ( , 1890Hooker ( , 1894Hooker ( , 1897 and Kurz (1877aKurz ( , 1877b proceeded very slowly until the presentation of the most recent Myanmar Plant Checklist (Kress et al, 2003). Since then, many new species or newly recorded species in Myanmar have been continuously reported by various researchers around the world (Tanaka and Nagamasu, 2006;Tanaka et al, 2002Tanaka et al, , 2006aTanaka et al, , 2006bTanaka et al, , 2009Tanaka et al, , 2010aTanaka et al, , 2010bTanaka et al, , 2010cTanaka et al, , 2015Tanaka and Hughes, 2007;Ito et al, 2009;Murata et al, 2010;Yukawa et al, 2010;Tanaka and Hayami, 2011;Gowda et al, 2012;Ormerod, 2011;Tanaka, 2012aTanaka, , 2012bPaul, 2013;Wilkin et al, 2013;Peng et al, 2014;Tong and Xia, 2014;Tan et al, 2015;Cho et al, 2016aCho et al, , 2016bPaton et al, 2016;Tanaka and Peng, 2016;Aung et al, 2017;Jin and Kyaw, 2017;Kang et al, 2017a;Liu et al, 2017;…”