Flowering Plants of the Neotropics

The definitive guide to the rich and diverse flora of the American tropics, illustrated with more than 300 colour pictures and 250 botanical line drawings.
More than 280 families of plants known to occur in the Western Hemisphere between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are covered and the text describes and each family’s features, diversity of genera and species, distribution, habitat, classification, botany, natural history, and economic uses.
This volume is an ideal reference for students, professional biologists, foresters, conservationists and tourists.