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Dr Yanfei Geng is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, and affiliated with the College of Tea Sciences at Guizhou University. She is an ethnobotanist with expertise in documenting traditional plant knowledge among indigenous communities in Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, China.
- PhD in Botany from Yunnan University
- MSc in Botany from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research interests focus on:
- Traditional plant use by Buyi, Shui, Gelao, Miao, and Dong communities
- Conservation of ethnobotanical knowledge and biodiversity
- Integration of wild plants into agroforestry and animal husbandry systems
- Cultural rituals and their ecological implications
- Non-Camellia tea species in Guizhou Province
Recent publications highlight her work on wild fodder plants for mithun, ritual plant uses by the Naxi, and ethnobotanical studies of edible medicinal plants, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches bridging botany, anthropology, and conservation.
Current projects include NSFC-funded studies on edible medicinal plants and Labiatae species in Guizhou. She supervises research on Non-Camellia tea plants and forest tea gardens.
