Introduction
to the
Páramo Ecosystem
Checklist
of Páramo
Plants
Lichens
Mosses
Hepatics
Vascular
plants
Gazetteer
of Páramo
Localities
Costa
Rica & Panama
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Peru
This "Neotropical Páramos"
website is based primarily upon information published in the book Páramos:
A Checklist of Plant Diversity, Geographical Distribution, and Botanical
Literature, with contributions from:
Stephen
P. Churchill
Dana Griffin III
S. Rob Gradstein
Harrie J.M. Sipman
Mauricio R. Gavilanes A.
(Luteyn, 1999, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden Volume 84).
Taxonomic keys to the approximately 125 families and 500 genera of vascular plants found in the páramos, along with brief family and generic descriptions and illustrations, are currently in preparation and will be added to this site in the future. This site is currently undergoing development and improvement, so please check back often.
Links to several other páramo
websites are also herewith provided:
Páramo group formed at Mérida in
fall of 2001
Mike Dillon's site with information about northern
Peru jalca
To order a copy of the Páramos book, visit
the NYBG Press at