Paramos: A checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution and botanical literature

A comprehensive work on the páramo plant diversity is now available in a checklist form. The need of this type of publication is increasingly acknowledged by the growing number of professionals interested in biodiversity. Despite its clearly aligned botanical audience, the book can serve to a greater readership because it touches the páramos from different aspects. It not only presents the alphabetical list of circa 4700 vascular (3399) and non-vascular (1298) plant species to be found in the páramos and associated data -including author, collector and collection site, but it also presents a comprehensive literature review of the state of the knowledge about this important part of the northern Andes, a comprehensive gazetteer of páramo localities in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, and a rich bibliographic reference of more than 1570 published works of páramo literature, albeit botanical in nature, but pertaining to 19 different topic areas.