Abstract:

Aims: The survival of wild plants is under threat and an objective assessment of the current status of plant species is an important scientific issue. To protect rare and endangered plants, China has compiled red lists and protection lists of plants. List of National Key Protected Wild Plants defines the range of national key protected wild plants and is the legal basis for the legal protection of wild plant resources. Thus, supplementing and improving the list has important practical significance. This paper presents an objective evaluation of the current lists and provides important suggestions for updating and improving the List of National Key Protected Wild Plants.

Method: We synthesized the existing plant protection lists in China, created a unified table, and conducted a comparative analysis of each list. By studying the red list of representative wild plants in China, it is compared with the List of National Key Protected Wild Plants, including the changes before and after the update of the List of National Key Protected Wild Plants. Further, the similarities, differences and completeness among the lists were analyzed and evaluated.

Results: The existing lists in China have problems such as large differences in the number of species evaluated in each list, controversial names for species, incompleteness, and large discrepencies between the domestic lists and international lists.

Conclusion: Finally, we propose that 193 species of wild plants should be included in the List of National Key Protected Wild Plants, of which 44 species are protected at National Level I and 149 species are protected at National Level II. Furthermore, focus should be placed on the 1,313 species of wild plants, which should be considered for inclusion in the provincial nature conservation list, to improve the List of National Key Protected Wild Plants.

Key words: wild plants, plant lists, endangered classes, comparative analysis