Botánica y Ecología de las Monocotiledóneas de los Páramos en Venezuela

Published by Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecológicas (ICAE) at Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), in Mérida, Venezuelain

Two volumes, edited by Professors Gilberto Morillo, Benito Briceño y Juan F. Silva. The book is in Spanish.

A total of 22 families, 141 genera and 597 species are described and illustrated with drawings and photographs.  It includes 226 orchids and 205 grasses. It gathers, for the first time, a great deal of information previously dispersed and adds new botanical and ecological  data.
Each species includes: botanical description, world and national distribution (including paramo sites), altitudinal limits, ecology, phenology, anatomy and etnobotany.  The  book  edition   makes easy to locate  descriptions and  illustrations.
For more details about the book you can visit http://www.ciencias.ula.ve/icae/,
http://www.paramo.org/node/2467
http://www.iai.int/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=139#ParamoBook

Some comments from specialists on the book:
"Very well designed and illustrated, and very informative.
Congratulations." Gustavo A. Romero, Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.
"it represents a great advance in the study of the Venezuelan Monocots" Fred W. Stauffer, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Switzerland.

The price of the two volumes is USD
90.00 plus shipping.