Table 1.

Number of species, endemic species and threatened species for well-studied taxonomic groups in China.

Taxonomic group	Number of speciesa	Number of endemic species	Number of threatened species
Bryophytes	3021	524	186
Ferns	2129	842	182
Gymnosperms	237	88	148
Angiosperms	28 996	14 693	3363
Amphibians	408	272	176
Reptiles	461	142	137
Birds	1372	77	146
Mammals	673	150	178

^aThe number of species and endemic species is from Gao et al. (2018) [10], and the number of threatened species is from Zang et al. (2016) [29].