 | A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of North west South America : (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) : With Supplementary Notes) by Alwyn H. Gentry
Buy new: $40.52 / Used from: $39.00 The book to have if you are going into Northwestern South America and have an interest in botany. I carry it around on every field trip I do there even if it is not botany related. You never know what you gonna find out there!
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 | Identification of tropical woody plants in the absence of flowers by Roland Keller
Buy new: $69.31 / Used from: $74.55 A good companion to Gentry's guide, although not as useful in the field (but still very good, see my review).
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 | Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas (Princeton Paperbacks) by Andrew Henderson
Buy used from: $175.29 This guide complements Gentry's book nicely, because palms are difficult to identify with Gentry's keys. Great information on all the species and superb plates and keys.
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 | Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation by Kirsten Albrecht Llamas
Buy new: $44.07 / Used from: $37.68 A great resource for identifying and learning about tropical garden plants. The only one that comes close and in some points is better is Harri Lorenzi's 'Plantas ornamentais do Brasil'.
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 | Flowering Plants of the Neotropics
Buy new: $85.46 / Used from: $42.50 A lavishly illustrated book with very good general info about neotropical plant families. NOT a field guide, but a general reference, since some plant families like Humiriaceae, Vochysiaceae, etc., were neglected in similar treatments like Cronquist's and Takhtajan's.
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 | Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics by Nancy C. Garwood
Buy new: $99.95 / Used from: $74.50 An invaluable resource to those bold enough to attempt seedling identification. Since research for the book was performed at a lowland facility, probably less info on montane species here.
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 | Heliconia an Identification Guide by Fred Berry
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $11.50 The best book around for Heliconia identification. It doesn't list them all, though, and there are many varieties around. Regional field guides needed to complement it.
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 | Cecropia (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 94) by Cornelis C. Berg; Pilar Franco Rosselli
Buy new: $82.50 / Used from: $123.24 A long awaited book, at least by me. It's a shame that we had to wait so long to have a book with keys to Cecropia since in most areas they are the commonest trees around and even there no way to know the species because of lack of keys...
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 | Brazilian Trees: A Guide to the Cultivation and Identification of Brazilian Trees - Vol. 01 by Harri Lorenzi
This and the second volume and all the books by Harri Lorenzi are astoundingly good. Hope to produce myself one like this someday for Colombia.
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 | Genetics and Conservation of Rare Plants
Buy new: $170.00 / Used from: $27.99 A good book on a subject in which texts are few and far between. Specially good is the part on sampling and collecting.
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 | Ex Situ Plant Conservation: Supporting Species Survival In The Wild (The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series)
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $42.19 Very nice insight about seed biology of orthodox and recalcitrant seeds. Indispensable knowledge for seed bank managers. Many other techniques also well discussed. Price very reasonable for the contents.
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 | The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms by Michael Hickey
Buy new: $47.70 / Used from: $53.85 I know people who have it, and like it a lot.
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| Collecting Plant Genetic Diversity: Technical Guidelines (Cabi Publishing)
Buy new: $190.00 / Used from: $116.10 An excellent volume on great detail on collecting plants to preserve genetic diversity, from tubers to seeds. Very good guidelines. A must have for botanists and botanical garden managers.
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 | Clusia: A Woody Neotropical Genus of Remarkable Plasticity and Diversity (Ecological Studies)
Buy new: $149.00 / Used from: $89.95 Looks like a good book on another very common genus of neotropical trees on which until now information was thin.
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 | Forest Conservation Genetics: Principles and Practice Book and CD-ROM
Buy used from: $172.80 I have it and it presents the subject in a very digestible way. This subject of forest and tree genetics is often overlooked in tropical forestry syllabi. A must read in my opinion for any serious forester.
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 | The Systematics of Montanoa (Asteraceae, Heliantheae) (Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden Vol. 36) by V. A. Funk
Buy new: $15.00 A good review on a very common genus in montane forest of the Andes.
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 | The Lecythidaceae of a Central Amazonian Moist Forest (Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. Vol. 75) by Scott A. Mori; Nadja Lepsch-Cunha
Good drawings and keys not found elsewhere but in pricey Flora Neotropica monographs. Dr. Scott Mori is THE authority on neotropical lecythidaceae.
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| A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Persea in the Westerm Hemisphere. (Persea-Lauraceae) (Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden Vo. 14(1)) by Lucille E. Kopp
Buy new: $20.00 A good compendium of keys for this genera, which, as most Lauraceae, are exceedingly difficult to identify without (and sometimes even with) flowering material.
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 | Paramos: A Checklist of Plant Diversity, Geographical Distribuion, and Botanical Literature (Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden) by Mauricio R. A. Gavilanes
Buy used from: $97.12 There hasn't been a book like this in decades and there won't be a similar anywhere soon.
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| The Genus Inga Botany by T. D. Pennington
Buy used from: $143.84 A great book on a very difficult genus when getting to know the species... consider looking elsewhere, maybe at Kew Books for a better deal.
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| A Revision of Tabernaemontana Vol. 2: The New World Species & Stemmadenia (Bk. 2) by A. J. Leeuwenberg
Buy used from: $77.75 A great treatment of this genus, at last.
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 | Chrysobalanaceae (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 9) by Ghillean T. Prance
Buy used from: $19.80 Great treatment of this genus. Very comprehensive set of keys for this Family, not an easy one to work with.
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 | Olacaceae (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 38) by Hermann Otto Sleumer
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $12.57 Good treatment of this vegetative-wise nondescript family.
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 | Swartzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpiniodeae, Swartzieae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 1) by Richard S. Cowan
This very polymorphic genus is a nightmare to identify in the field. This book makes it easier.
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| Olmedieae, Brosimeae (Moraceae) (Flora neotropica, monograph) by C. C Berg
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 | Sapotaceae (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 52) by T.D. Pennington
Buy new: $204.00 / Used from: $59.99 |
 | Cecropiaceae: Coussapoa and Pourouma, with an Introduction to the Family (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 51) by C.C. Berg
Buy new: $62.25 |
 | Alchorneae (Euphorbiaceae) (Alchornea, Aparisthmium e Conceveiba) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 93) by Ricardo De S. Secco
Buy new: $83.95 / Used from: $83.94 |
 | Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 31) by Klaus Kubitzki
Buy used from: $85.07 |
 | Lauraceae: Nectandra (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 60)) by J. G. Rohwer
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 | Siparunaceae (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 95) by Susanne S. Renner
Buy new: $93.00 / Used from: $54.98 |
 | Brunelliaceae - Supplement (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 2S) by Jose Cuatrecasas
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $15.00 |
 | Moreae, Artocarpeae, and Dorstenia (Moraceae): With Introductions to the Family and Ficus and With Additions and Corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7(Flora Neotropica Mongraph No. 83) by Cornelis C. Berg
Buy new: $39.00 |
 | Lecythidaceae - Part I. The Actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthos, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma, & Cariniana) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 21(I)) by Ghillean T. Prance
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 | Lecythidaceae - Part II: The Zygomorphic-Flowered New World Genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, and Lecythis) by Scott A. Mori
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 | Rollinia (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 57) by Paul J. M. Maas
Buy used from: $25.00 |
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