The first major regional flora ever written in Spanish, Flora Mesoamericana is a collaborative effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Instituto de Biologia 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 specializing in tropical taxonomy from around the world are collaborating on this extraordinarily important project.

This volume includes a single family, Orchidaceae, with 270 genera and 2,336 species, of which 1,421 are endemic. Five combinations are published new. Thirty-one specialists contributed to this volume.

In Spanish.