Neotropical Plant Families: A Concise Guide to Families of Vascular Plants in the Neotropics

by Paul J.M. Maas

This new edition deals with angiosperm families according to the APG (1998) classification. This affected the treatment of 78 families out of 249 that appeared in the previous 47 families appear in both editions, but are differently circumscribed, 31 families. have disappeared from the previous edition, and 54 families are treated here for the first time. This book provides an excellent opportunity to educate new generations of systematists using a phylogeny - based classification.

289 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1985