Research Field

• Plant systematics
• Biogeography

期刊論文

1. Kuo-Fang Chung, 2026, “(29) Proposal to add S.S. Ying’s New Taxa & New Names, Vols. 1–8+, to the list of suppressed works in Appendix I”, TAXON, 75(4), e70208. (SCIE) (IF: 2; SCI ranking: 58.8%,45.1%)
2. Cyrus Job P. Dela Cruz*, Mark Angelo C. Bucay, Karen B. Corre, Judy Ann V. Valiente, Danilo N. Tandang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2026, “Begonia salog (Begoniaceae, section Baryandra), a new endemic species from southeastern Luzon, Philippines”, TAIWANIA, 74(4), 632-637. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
3. Cheng-Wei Chen*, Germinal Rouhan, Viet Dai Dang, Hong Truong Luu, Van Truong Do, Thi Ngan Lu, Yi-Shan Chao, Yao-Moan Huang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2026, “Studies of Vietnamese pteridophyte flora 4: topotype project”, PHYTOKEYS, 275, 115-132. (SCIE) (IF: 1.5; SCI ranking: 57%)
4. BUCAY MARK ANGELO C., TANDANG DANILO N., TAN-SUMAGAYSAY JEANETTE MARA, HSU HAO-CHUN, RUBITE ROSARIO R., CHUNG KUO-FANG*, 2026, “Two new Begonia sect. Baryandra species from the Visayas islands, Philippines revealed by morpho-anatomical and molecular analyses”, Phytotaxa, 754(1), 83-94. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
5. Chung Kuo-Fang*, Kono Yoshiko, Peng Ching-I, Yang Hsun-An, Tsai Li-Wei, Oginuma Kazuo*, 2026, “Karyotypes and chromosome evolution of polyploids of Begonia sect. Platycentrum (Begoniaceae) with chromosome numbers 2n = 44, 60, and 66”, CYTOLOGIA, 91(1), 33-38. (SCIE) (IF: 0.4; SCI ranking: 98.9%,99.4%)
6. Chen Cheng‐Wei, Yoneoka Katsuhiro, Hori Kiyotaka, Fujiwara Tao, Van Do Truong, Murakami Noriaki, Huang Yao‐Moan, Chen Ko‐Hsuan, Ebihara Atsushi, Chung Kuo‐Fang*, 2026, “Life phases integration uncovers long‐lived gametophytes mediated reticulate evolution in <i>Haplopteris</i> (Pteridaceae)”, New Phytologist, 250(2), 1265-1282. (SCIE) (IF: 8.1; SCI ranking: 5.1%)
7. Kuo-Fang Chung*, Pei-Yi Chen, 2026, “Correct authorship of Corydalis yanhusuo (Papaveraceae)”, PHYTOTAXA, 737(4), 254-256. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
8. Mark Angelo C. Bucay, Danilo N. Tandang, Mikko Angelo G. Reyes, Neil Anthony A. Del Mundo, Kuo-Fang Chung, 2026, “New Begonia species from Ilin Island, Occidental Mindoro Province, Philippines and insights to the coastal species of Begonia sect. Baryandra”, TAIWANIA, 71(1), 42-48. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
9. Hao-Chun Hsu, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Cheng-Wei Chen, Yi-Shan Chao, Yao-Moan Huang, Truong Van Do, Kuo-Fang Chung, 2025, “Hidden in Silver Cloud Peak—A Lithophilous Species Primulina cucphuongensis (Gesneriaceae) from Cuc Phuong National Park, Northern Vietnam”, SYSTEMATIC BOTANY, 50(3), 269-280. (SCIE) (IF: 0.8; SCI ranking: 94.1%,82.7%)
10. Isagi Yuji, Shimizu Taiga, Kobayashi Yukihiro, Suyama Yoshihisa, Tokuhiro Chinatsu, Kokubugata Goro, Ito Takuro, Kuo-Fang Chung, Abe Atsushi, Makino Takashi, Yamasaki Michimasa, 2025, “Genomic analysis highlights the conservation significance of Torenia concolor (Linderniaceae) from the periphery of its distribution range”, Journal of Plant Research, 138(6), 959-969. (SCIE) (IF: 2.3; SCI ranking: 41.8%)
11. Goro Kokubugata, Satoshi Kakishima, Chikako Ishii, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Kuo-Fang Chung, Masatsugu Yokota, 2025, “Verification of Asymmetry in Distribution Altitude of Shortia rotundifolia (Diapensiaceae) between the Ryukyus of Japan and Taiwan, and its Phylogenetic Relationships”, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B, Botany, 51(2), 67-75. (Others)
12. BUCAY MARK ANGELO C., TANDANG DANILO N., CHEN HONG-WUN, TSAI LI-WEI, RUBITE ROSARIO R., CHUNG KUO-FANG, 2025, “Morphological and molecular analyses revealed two new species of Begonia sect. Baryandra in the Eastern Mindanao Biodiversity Corridor, Philippines”, Phytotaxa, 698(4), 245-256. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
13. Chia-Ying Ou, Chia-Hao Chang, Ting-Yu Yeh, Kuo-Fang Chung, Peter C. Hoch, Shih-Hui Liu, 2025, “Novel perspectives on plastome evolution in Onagraceae”, AOB PLANTS, 17(3), plaf025. (SCIE) (IF: 2.4; SCI ranking: 47.9%,38.8%)
14. BUCAY MARK ANGELO C., TANDANG DANILO N., CHEN HONG-WUN, RUBITE ROSARIO R., CHUNG KUO-FANG*, 2025, “Morpho-anatomical description of new Begonia species (sect. Baryandra, Begoniaceae) from Butuan City, Mindanao Island, Philippines”, Phytotaxa, 681(1), 102-108. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
15. ESPEJA BRYLL L., BUCAY MARK ANGELO C., TANDANG DANILO N., RUBITE ROSARIO R., CHEN HONG-WUN, CHUNG KUO-FANG, BAUTISTA MAJELLA G., 2024, “A new record of Begonia aptera in Southern Mindanao: the second species of Begonia sect. Platycentrum recorded from the Philippines”, Phytotaxa, 670(3), 181-186. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
16. Tsai Sz-Yi, Lee Jin-Ying, Chung Kuo-Fang*, 2024, “Implementation of Taxonomic Name Usages in Generating National Species Checklist in Taiwan”, Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 8, e140130.
17. Kokubugata Goro, Satoshi Kakishima, Kuo-Fang Chung, Chikako Ishii, Masatsugu Yokota, 2024, “Reappraisal of intraspecific taxonomy of Cassytha filiformis (Lauraceae)”, ACTA PHYTOTAXONOMICA ET GEOBOTANICA, 75(2), 85-96.
18. Kuo-Fang Chung, Yoshiko Kono, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Li-Wei Tsai, Hong-Wun Chen, Hsun-An Yang, Diego T. Vasques, Goro Kokubugata, Ching-I Peng, Kazuo Oginuma, 2024, “An updated synopsis of Lysimachia L. (Lysimachieae, Primulaceae) of Taiwan”, Taiwania, 69(2), 207-228. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
19. Chen Cheng-Wei, Cicuzza Daniele, Lindsay Stuart, Sukri Rahayu Sukmaria, Chao Yi-Shan, Huang Yao-Moan, Chung Kuo-Fang*, 2024, “Haplopteris palustris, A New Terrestrial Vittarioid Fern (Pteridaceae; Polypodiales) from Western Malesia”, Systematic Botany, 49(1), 227-235. (SCIE) (IF: 0.8; SCI ranking: 94.1%,82.7%)
20. BUCAY MARK ANGELO C., TANDANG DANILO N., RUBITE ROSARIO R., JALLORES JR. EDISON, CHUNG KUO-FANG*, 2024, “A new Begonia species (sect. Baryandra, Begoniaceae) from Batangas Province, Luzon Island, Philippines”, Phytotaxa, 641(4), 277-285. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
21. Tsunenari Kaori, Ito Takuro, Yokota Masatsugu, Shibabayashi Mayu, Endo Chiharu, Chung Kuo-Fang, Suyama Yoshihisa, Matsuo Ayumi, Abe Atsushi, Naiki Akiyo, Setoguchi Hiroaki, Makino Takashi, Isagi Yuji, 2024, “Double migration of the endangered Tricyrtis formosana (Liliaceae) in Japan”, Scientific Reports, 14(1), e957. (SCIE) (IF: 3.9; SCI ranking: 29.7%)
22. Cheng-Wei Chen*, Tian-Chuan Hsu, Hoang Son Doan, Van Hai Do, Hong Truong Luu, Van Son Le, Yea-Chen Liu, Chia-Wei Li, Yao-Moan Huang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2023, “Studies of Vietnamese Pteridophyte Flora 2”, Systematic Botany, 48(2), 159-172. (SCIE) (IF: 0.8; SCI ranking: 94.1%,82.7%)
23. Goro Kokubugata*, Satoshi Kakishima*, Takuro Ito, Yukiko Saito, Chikako Ishii, Kuo-Fang Chung, Mina L. Labuguen, Aurea Lopez-Feliciano, Masatsugu Yokota, 2023, “Phylogenetic background and taxonomic status of Crepidiastrum lanceolatum (Asteraceae) sold as a traditional vegetable in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan revealed by MIG-seq SNP data”, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B, Botany, 49(2), 73-82.
24. Hong Truong Luu, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Chia-Rong Chuang, Cheng-Wei Chen, Ngoc Toan Tran, Ngoc Long Vu, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2023, “Langbiangia, a new genus of Gesneriaceae endemic to Langbiang Plateau, southern Vietnam and a taxonomic endeavor to achieve key targets of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework”, PLOS ONE, 18(5), e0284650.. (SCIE) (IF: 2.6; SCI ranking: 50%)
25. Cheng-Wei Chen*, Stuart Lindsay, Joel Nitta, Germinal Rouhan, Michael Sundue, Leon R. Perrie, Yao-Moan Huang, Wen-Liang Chiou, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2023, “Systematics and biogeography of the Old World fern genus Antrophyum”, CLADISTICS, 39, 249-272. (SCIE) (IF: 6.2; SCI ranking: 7.8%,1.1%)
26. Yoshiko Kono, Ching-I Peng, Kazuo Oginuma*, Hsun-An Yang, Chung Kuo-Fang*, 2023, “Cytological study of Begonia sections Flocciferae, Parvibegonia and Platycentrum (Begoniaceae) with Chromosome Numbers 2n=28 and 56”, CYTOLOGIA, 88(1), 77-82. (SCIE) (IF: 0.4; SCI ranking: 98.9%,99.4%)
27. Goro Kokubugata*, Satoshi Kakishima*, Atsushi Abe, Koh Nakamura, Kuo-Fang Chung, Masatsugu Yokota, 2023, “Phylogenetic Relationships among Populations of Portulaca okinawensis (Portulacaceae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan Using MIG-seq SNP Data”, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B, Botany, 49(1), 33-40.
28. Shibabayashi Mayu, Shimizu Taiga, Tokuhiro Chinatsu, Suyama Yoshihisa, Sakaguchi Shota, Ito Takuro, Yu Chih-Chieh, Chung Kuo-Fang, Nagasawa Jun’ichi, Shiuchi Toshiaki, Kokubugata Goro, Abe Atsushi, Naiki Akiyo, Nagano Atsushi J., Isagi Yuji, 2023, “The contrary conservation situations of two local critically endangered species, Vaccinium emarginatum (Ericaceae) and Elatostema platyphyllum (Urticaceae), growing on the eastern edge of the distribution”, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1093321. (SCIE) (IF: 2.6; SCI ranking: 41.4%)
29. Kuo-Fang Chung*, Chia-Lun Hsieh, accepted, “Synopsis of Camphora (Cinnamomeae, Lauraceae) of Taiwan, with two new combinations and one new synonym”, TAIWANIA, 68(3), 384-390. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)
30. Chia-Rong Chuang, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Chi-Shan Chang, Chiu-Mei Wang, Danilo N. Tandang, Elliot M. Gardner, Lauren Audi, Nyree J. C. Zerega, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “Amis Pacilo and Yami Cipoho are not the same as the Pacific breadfruit starch crop—Target enrichment phylogenomics of a long-misidentified <i>Artocarpus</i> species sheds light on the northward Austronesian migration from the Philippines to Taiwan”, PLOS ONE, 17(9), e0272680. (SCIE) (IF: 2.6; SCI ranking: 50%)
31. Yoshiko Kono, Ching-I Peng, Kazuo Oginuma*, Hsun-An Yang, Yan Liu, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “Cytological Study of Begonia Sect. Platycentrum (Begoniaceae) with Chromosome Number 2n=22”, CYTOLOGIA, 87(3), 255-263. (SCIE) (IF: 0.4; SCI ranking: 98.9%,99.4%)
32. Hsieh, Chia-Lun, Wei-Bin Xu, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “Plastomes of limestone karst gesneriad genera <i>Petrocodon</i> and <i>Primulina</i>, and the comparative plastid phylogenomics of Gesneriaceae”, Scientific Reports, 12, e15800. (SCIE) (IF: 3.9; SCI ranking: 29.7%)
33. Tseng, Y.-H., Hsieh, C.-L., Campos-Dominguez, L., Hu, A.-Q., Chang, C.-C., Hsu, Y.-T., Kidner, C. A., Hughes, M., Moonlight, P. W., Hung, C.-H., Wang, Y.-C., Wang, Y.-T., Liu, S.-H., Girmansyah, D. & Chung, K.-F.*, 2022, “Insights into evolution of the chloroplast genome and the phylogeny of <i>Begonia</i>”, Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 79, e408.
34. Rubite, R. R., Salcedo, J. C., Ubaldo, D. B. H., Peng, C.-I., Chung, K.-F., Evangelista, L. & Hughes, M., 2022, “<i>Begonia hemicardia</i> (sect. <i>Petermannia</i>, Begoniaceae), a resurrected heterotypic synonym”, Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 79, e403.
35. Michel, T., Tseng, Y.-H., Wilson, H., Chung, K.-F. & Kidner, C., 2022, “A hybrid capture bait set for <i>Begonia<i/>”, Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 79, e409.
36. Begonia Phylogeny Group, 2022, “Resolving phylogenetic and taxonomic conflict in <i>Begonia</i>”, Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 79, e1928.
37. Meng-Ying Tsai, Chi Kuan, Zheng-Lin Guo, Hsun-An Yang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, Chin-Min Kimmy Ho*, 2022, “Stomatal clustering in <i>Begonia</i> improves water use efficiency by modulating stomatal movement and leaf structure”, Plant-Environment Interaction, 3, 141–154.
38. Yoshiko Kono, Ching-I Peng, Kazuo Oginuma , Rosario R. Rubite, Hsun-An Yang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “Cytological study of <i>Begonia</i> Sections <i>Petermannia</i> and <i>Haagea</i> (Begoniaceae): Chromosome Evolution for 2<i>n</i>=30”, CYTOLOGIA, 87(2), 169-176. (SCIE) (IF: 0.4; SCI ranking: 98.9%,99.4%)
39. Tracy Jiaye Lee, Yu-Ching Liu, Wei-An Liu, Yu-Fei Lin, Hsin-Han Lee, Huei-Mien Ke, Jen-Pan Huang, Mei-Yeh Jade Lu, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Kuo-Fang Chung, Gianni Liti, Isheng Jason Tsai*, 2022, “Extensive sampling of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> in Taiwan reveals ecology and evolution of predomesticated lineages”, GENOME RESEARCH, 32(6), 864-877. (SCIE) (IF: 5.5; SCI ranking: 19%,13.5%,10.7%)
40. Benjamin M.Torke*, Domingos B.O.S. Cardoso, Hsuan Chang, Shi-Jin Li, Miao Niue, R. Toby Pennington, Charles H. Stirton, Wei-Bin Xu, Charles E. Zartman, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “A dated molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis reveals the evolutionary history of the trans-pacifically disjunct tropical tree genus <i>Ormosia<i/> (Fabaceae)”, MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 166, 107329. (SCIE) (IF: 3.6; SCI ranking: 41.9%,23.5%,30.8%)
41. Wen-Hsi Kuo, Shih-Hui Liu, Chiung-Chih Chang, Chia-Lun Hsieh, Yi-Hsuan Li, Takuro Ito, Hyosig Won, Goro Kokubugata, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “Plastome phylogenomics of <i>Allaeanthus</i>, <i>Broussonetia</i> and <i>Malaisia</i> (Dorstenieae, Moraceae) and the origin of <i>B.</i> × <i>kazinoki</i>”, JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH, 135(2), 203-220. (SCIE) (IF: 2.3; SCI ranking: 41.8%)
42. Chia-Lun Hsieh, Chih-Chieh Yu, Yu-Lan Huang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, 2022, “<i>Mahonia</i> vs. <i>Berberis</i> unloaded: Generic delimitation and infrafamilial classification of Berberidaceae based on plastid phylogenomics”, FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 12, e720171. (SCIE) (IF: 4.8; SCI ranking: 12.7%)
43. Yoshiko Kono, Ching-I Peng, Kazuo Oginuma, Hsun-An Yang, Yan Liu, Chung Kuo-Fang*, 2021, “Cytological Study of <i>Begonia</i> Sect. <i>Diploclinium</i> (Begoniaceae)”, CYTOLOGIA, 86(4), 359-366. (SCIE) (IF: 0.4; SCI ranking: 98.9%,99.4%)
44. Yoshiko Kono, Ching-I Peng, Kazuo Oginuma*, Rosario R. Rubite, Yu-Hsin Tseng, Hsun-An Yang, Kuo-Fang Chung*, accepted, “Cytological Study of <i>Begonia</i> Sect. <i>Baryandra</i> (Begoniaceae)”, CYTOLOGIA, 86(2), 133-141. (SCIE) (IF: 0.4; SCI ranking: 98.9%,99.4%)
45. Loren Koçillari, Mark E. Olson, Samir Suweis, Rodrigo P. Rocha, Alberto Lovison, Franco Cardin, Todd E. Dawson, Alberto Echeverría, Alex Fajardo, Silvia Lechthaler, Cecilia Martínez-Pérez, Carmen Regina Marcati, Kuo-Fang Chung, Julieta A. Rosell, Alí Segovia-Rivas, Cameron B. Williams, Emilio Petrone-Mendoza, Andrea Rinaldo, Tommaso Anfodillo, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan, 2021, “The Widened Pipe Model of plant hydraulic evolution”, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 118(22), e2100314118. (SCIE) (IF: 9.1; SCI ranking: 16.2%)
46. Koh Nakamura, Rosario Rivera Rubite, Yoshiko Kono, Jelene V. Macabsco, Arlene D. Talana, Grecebio J. D. Alejandro, Meng-Jung Ho, Hsun-An Yang, Kuo-Fang Chung, Ching-I Peng, 2021, “<i>Begonia</i> ×<i>dinglensis</i>, a natural hybrid of Philippine <i>Begonia</i> section <i>Baryandra</i>, as evidenced by morphological, phylogenetic and cytological data”, Phytotaxa, 494(1), 151-164. (SCIE) (IF: 1; SCI ranking: 76.4%)

專書、論文集

1. Kuo-Fang Chung, 2021, The Origins of the Austronesians: Papers from 2019 International Austronesian Language Revitalization Forum, 174-197 pages, New Taipei City: Council of Indigenous Peoples, Taiwan.
2. 鍾國芳，2021，《南島起源：2019年南島語言復振國際論壇實錄》，共157-173頁，新北市：中華民國原住民族委員會。