Dr. Lin Li is an associate professor at the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou, China. She received a BSc from Xinyang Normal University in 1996 and an MSc from Henan Agricultural University in 2001. She received her Ph.D. in botany from the South China Botanical Garden, CAS, in 2009. Her research has focused on taxonomic studies and the phylogeny of Orchidaceae, particularly the identification, nomenclature, and classification of orchid species from tropical and subtropical areas. Based on morphological and palynological characters, as well as molecular and kayological evidence, she clarified the taxonomic status of and the evolutionary relationship between Tainia and Ania, which have been subjects of controversy for many years. She discovered the new genus and species Thuniopsis cleistogama.