This center was established in 1998. It was emerged from the former CAS key lab of systematic and evolutionary botany (LSEB), the department of plant taxonomy (including the Herbarium), and the department of paleobotany of the Institute of Botany, and is currently a state key laboratory.

Research scopes:
  * Plant Taxonomy
  * Floristics and Biogeography
  * Origins and Phylogenies of Higher Plants
  * Population Biology & Conservation Genetics
  * Evo-Devo and Evolutionary Genomics

Website: http://cseb.ibcas.ac.cn/eindex.htm