This center was established in1998 by merging the Key Laboratory of Systematic and evolutionary Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences( CAS), department of plant taxonomy and department of palaeobotany of the institute.

• 该研究中心成立于1998年，由原中科院系统与进化植物学开放研究实验室、物分类研究室（本馆）古植物研究室合并而成。