Flora Mesoamericana: Volumen 2, Parte 1: Cycadaceae a Cactaceae

The first major regional flora ever written in Spanish, Flora Mesoamericana is a collaborative effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Instituto de Biología of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Natural History Museum, London, and numerous specialists worldwide.

The Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants growing in the five southernmost states of Mexico and all the Central American republics. Hundreds of botanists specialising in tropical taxonomy from around the world are collaborating on this extraordinarily important project.

Volume 2, part 1 includes 59 families with 243 genera and 1375 species, of which 676 are endemic to the Mesoamerican region. The largest families are Lauraceae (262 species), Annonaceae (170), and Cactaceae (106). A list of taxa with Mesoamerican types that were not included in the treatments and are names published recently, while the volume was already in production, is presented in the Appendix.

Spanish Language with scientific nomenclature