Flora Generica de los Paramos: Guia Ilustrada de las Plantas Vasculare. Mem (92)
In the northern Andes of South America and adjacent southern Central America, between the continuous forest line and the upper limit of plant life at the snowline, is a grassland system called Páramo. Ecologically fragile, the Páramo is one of the richest high elevation mountain ecosystems in the World with high biological diversity and endemism [species found nowhere else]. Its most important role relates to Andean hydrology. This volume, in Spanish with English abstract, provides keys, descriptions, distributional information, and illustrations for the identification of the 127 families and 540 genera of vascular plants recognized in the Páramo.
In the northern Andes of South America and adjacent southern Central America, between the continuous forest line and the upper limit of plant life at the snowline, is a grassland system called Páramo. Ecologically fragile, the Páramo is one of the richest high elevation mountain ecosystems in the World with high biological diversity and endemism [species found nowhere else]. Its most important role relates to Andean hydrology. This volume, in Spanish with English abstract, provides keys, descriptions, distributional information, and illustrations for the identification of the 127 families and 540 genera of vascular plants recognized in the Páramo.