Biography

Chinese monocot specialist. Fa-Tsuan Wang was trained by the renowned Chinese pioneering botanist Hsen-Hsu Hu at Beijing University. He was a member of the Academia Sinica and was based at the Institute of Systematic Botany in Beijing. Wang collected plants in Sichuan in 1930 with W.P. Fang, W.C. Cheng and Tsin Tang, penetrating the botanically rich are on the border of Yunnan, Lololand. He co-authored the Liliaceae section of Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (1978, 1980) with Tsin Tang and others.

Sources:
H.L. Li, 1945, "Botanical Exploration in China during the last Twenty-Five Years", Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 156(1): 29.