Flowering Plants of the Neotropics

by Nathan Smith, Scott A. Mori, Andrew Henderson, Dennis W. Stevenson, and Scott V. Heald

The American tropics are home to almost one-third of the world's flowering plants. This book is the definitive guide to this rich diversity of flora. Unique for its fabulous color illustrations and detailed descriptions, Flowering Plants of the Neotropics represents the work of 150 botanists and covers more than 280 families of plants known to occur in the Western Hemisphere between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The expert text describes each family's features, diversity of genera and species, distribution, habitat, classification, botany, natural history, and economic uses.

More than 300 color photographs and 250 botanical line drawings illustrate these showiest of New World plants—flora that range from the deserts of Mexico and the coasts of Central America to the vast lowland rain forests of Amazonia and the cloud forests of the Andes. Both beautiful and highly informative, this volume is an ideal reference for students, professional biologists, foresters, conservationists, tourists, and all who appreciate the form and color of flowering plants.

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