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IPNI
The International Plant Names Index.
Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Flora de
Conosur Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares
Good
news! A new natural monument near Arica: Quebrada de Cardones,
primer área silvestre protegida de Arica. "En el caso de la Quebrada
de Cardones, se pretende sumar por primera vez, la representación del
ecosistema de precordillera, y el hábitat de los cactus candelabro. La
materialización del decreto presidencial transformará al lugar en el Monumento
Natural Quebrada de Cardones. And read more about the natural monument from
the CONAF
site. More from El
Mercurio. Right: Browningia candelaris with
developing fruit in 2008, photo B. Knapton. Six
new protected areas for Chile in 2009.
2,052 new species of
vascular plants See page 5. SOS 2009 State of
Observed Species: A Report Card on our knowledge of the Earth's Species.
Jardín
Botánico del Desierto
(Antofagasto) Atacama
Desert un bréve descripción, Benito Gómez Silva, Instituto del
Desierto, Universidad de Antofagasta.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Flora
de Chile by K Reiche online. Flora
of Peru Macbride et al online. Hard to believe but
it's all there for free download.
For extreme northern Chile it's necessary to use Peruvian and Bolivian resources
as well as Chilean.
Botanicus MBG Rare Books online: Flora
Peruviana, et Chilensis Hippolyto Ruiz, et Josepho
Pavon. Tomus I-III
Malezas
de México Lots of close-up photographs.
Huge site, fine resource.
Flora
y vegetación del Departamento de Tacna
(Peru) por Juan Franco Leon et al.
Revista
Peruana de Biología. Publicación del Universidad Nacional Mayor de San
Marcos.
Recetario
Gourmet de Quínoa (Quinua recipe book).
How to get more quinoa into your diet. High protein seeds commonly used on
the altiplano of Chile and Bolivia. How to grow quinoa: Manual
de Cultivación para la Producción de Quínoa en la Región Semiarido en Chile.
Quínoa video in Spanish
Quinoa:
Chenopodium quinoa
"Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is a crop that, although recently
"discovered" by agricultural researchers from industrialized
societies, has been grown for many thousands of years in the mountains of South
America. It's been a major crop in the Andes mountains since 3,000
B.C."..........
Manual de plantas y canciones Aymara Divulgación de la
sabiduría ancestral sobre plantas nativas del altiplano de Arica, Chile.
Etnobotania y etno musicología
Aymara.
Chile
Bosque. Bienvenidos a este proyecto dedicado a difundir,
conocer y disfrutar de la diversa flora nativa de Chile.
Download
a free copy of : “Plantas
Amenazadas del
Centro-Sur
de Chile:
Distribución,
Conservación y Propagación”
Free download of “Manual
de Recolleción de semillas de plantas silvestres”.
Boletin INIA #110.
ISSN 0717-4829. How to collect seeds from wild plants. With participation of Government of Chile and KEW Millenium
Seed Bank Project.
Welcome to the
Rapid Color Guides page.
Very
helpful posters on plants from Arequipa, western slope of Peru, Cuzco,
etc. Over 50 posters
available for Peru, also for Mexico, USA, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, etc.
Plants, animals.
Arboles y Arbustos para Sistemas Agroforestales en Los Valles Interandinos de
Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Guia de Campo. IG Vargas, A Lawrence,
ME Otazu. 2000. ISBN 99905-801-1-1. Some photos and line
drawings, text, maps, whole-page line drawings. 140 pp.
Arboles y Arbustos del Valle
Sagrado de Los Incas. Trees and Bushes from the Sacred Valley of
the Incas. G. Cassinelli del Sante. 2000.
ISBN-9972-9172-0-7. 102 pp. In Spanish and
English.
Flora Genérica de los
Páramos: Guía Illustrada de las Plantas Vasculares P.
Sklenár, JL Luteyn, C Ulloa Ulloa, PM Jorgensen, MO Dillon. Memiors of
the New York Botanical Garden. 2005. ISBN 0-89327-468-2. 499
pp.
Un Compañero
Neotropical: Una introducción a los animales, plantas, y ecosistemas del
Trópico del Nuevo Mundo. John Kricher. 2006. ISBN
1-878788-50-7 Editores de la versión en Español Alvaro Jaramillo y Luis
Segura. "De vez en cuando un pensamiento llega a la mente como un
relámpago. Así llegó la idea de traducir al español la reconocida obra
de John Kricher. A Neotropical Companion.
Cactaceas en la flora
silvestre de Chile. Segunda Edicion. AE Hoffman J. and
HE Walter M. Illustrations by Andrés Jullián
2004. ISBN 956-7743-05-3. Now now in line with IOS decisions on taxonomy. Ediciones
Fundacion Claudio Gay, Santiago.
Illustrated Guide to Trees
of Peru. TD Pennington, C Reynel, A Daza. Drawings by Rosemary
Wise. 2004. ISBN 0 9538134 3 6. 848 pages and chock full
of keys, line diagrams, essential information. Published
by David Hunt, England.
A Tour of the Flowering
Plants: based on the Classification System of the Angiosperm Phylogeny
group. Priscilla Spears. 2006. ISBN
1-930723-48-2. English. Helpful book for those planning to use the
new classification system for angiosperms, comes with CD and has useful
appendices. Also see
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. "The focus of this site is on angiosperms, although treatments of
gymnosperm groups were added in 2005. Emphasis is placed on plant families
because they are the groups - admittedly partly arbitrary as to circumscription,
but now for the most part monophyletic - around which many of us organize our
understanding of plant diversity".
Flores de Alta Montaña de
los Andes Patagonicos High Mountain Flowers of the Patagonia Andes.
Marcela Ferreyra, Cecilia Ezcurra, Sonia Clayton. 2006. In English
and Spanish, 239pp. color photos. Descriptions of 170 species of
plants, maps. Editorial
LOLA
Tillandsia del Norte de Chile y del Extremo Sur de Perú.
Raquel Pinto. 2005. ISBN: 956-299-730-8. Another of Raquel
Pinto's informative books over vegetation of northern Chile.
Includes photos and descriptions of the various species, plus flora and fauna
associated. Range maps, conservation themes, etc. Contact the author
raquelpinto@vtr.net
Land Above the Trees: a guide
to American Alpine Tundra, 4th
edition. Ann Zwinger and Beatrice Willard, 1996. ISBN 1-55566-171-8.
Alpine habitats beyond the field guide:
alpine tundra, plant and animal adaptations, alpine heath, alpine marsh, talus
and scree slopes, fellfields, snowbed communities, etc. With line drawings,
useful glossary and good bibliography.
The
Giant Horsetails, Chad Husby's site on this giant plant. He quotes
Richard Spruce in Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes 1908:
"But the most remarkable plant in the forest of Canelos is a gigantic
Equisetum, 20 feet high, and the stem nearly as thick as the wrist!...It extends
for a distance of a mile on a plain bordering the Pastasa, but elevated some 200
feet above it, where at every few steps one sinks over the knees in black,
white, and red mud. A wood of young larches may give you an idea of its
appearance. I have never seen anything which so much astonished me.
I could almost fancy myself in some primeval forest of Calamites
, and if some gigantic Saurian had suddenly appeared, crushing its way among the
succulent stems, my surprise could hardly have been increased."
Flores del Desierto de
Chile Wildflowers of the Chilean Desert Sebastian
Teillier A, Herman Zepeda F, Patricia Garcia V. 1998 ISBN
956-7173-22-2 In English and Spanish. Seventy-three flowers included,
with large photos, classified by color of flower, habitat photos and discussions
of habitat and plant forms and adaptations of desert flora, useful for the
species in the Atacama Desert south of Antofagasto.
One River: Explorations and
Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest, Wade Davis, 1996. ISBN
0-684-80886-2 From the back cover: "In 1941, Professor Richard Evans
Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he
spent the next 12 years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian
tribes. In the 1970's he sent 2 prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical
secret of coca............. a sacred plant know to the Inca as the Divine
Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery,
betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers
drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary
realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a
forest that once stood immense and inviolable."
Touchstone, Simon & Schuster A book you'll never quite finish,
to read and reread.
What a story.
Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High
Mountain Ecosystems, C. Korner. 1999. ISBN
3-540-65438-0 From the preface of this textbook:
"One of the largest natural biological experiments, perhaps the only one
replicated across all latitudes and all climatic regions, is uplift of the
landscape and exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradientes over a very
short distance, otherwise only seen over thousands of kilometers of poleward
traveling. Generations of plant scientists have beeh fascinated by these
natural test areas, and have explored plant and ecosystem responses to alpine
life conditions, Alpine Plant Life is an attempt at a synthesis."
Gayana
Botanica "La revista Gayana
Botanica, dedicada al naturalista francés Claudio Gay (1800-1873), es el órgano
oficial de Ediciones de la Universidad de Concepción, Chile, para la publicación
de resultados de investigaciones originales en las áreas de la botánica."
Articles online starting with Vol 57. 2000.
Diversidad Florística del Norte de
Perú Tomo I, 1999. ISBN ?
by Sagástegui, Dillon, Sánchez V., Leiva G., Lezama A. This book introduces the flora of six of the northerly areas
of Peru: Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque, Cajamarca; Amazonas; La
Libertad; San Martin. Contents: El Perú, causas de su
biodiversidad y endemismos; Areas protegidos del Norte de Peru;
Gimnospermas; Angiosperms; Literatura citada. Tomo II is
now available, Diversidad floristica del Norte de Perú, Bosque Montanos.
"The second in series in Spanish, treating the flors of the montane forests
of northern Peru, illustrating flowering plant diversity in seven
departments. Over 75 families are illustrated with full-page color
photographs of habitats, plant habit, and flower close-ups." Both of
these volumes can be ordered from www.sacha.org
Online
course in systematic botany, Texas A&M University. It's all
there, lectures, lab notes, for those who have internet. Excellent
and useful site, not restricted to Texas flora.
An online course in systematic
botany, in Spanish. "Este es un curso de botánica sistemática
que pone su énfasis en el estudio de las plantas nativas de Chile y de las
plantas ornamentales de uso frecuente en nuestro país." Prof. Sebastián
Teillier,
of the Universidad Central de Chile, Stgo.
Hongos de Chile: Atlas
Micologico, Waldo Lazo, Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de
Chile. 2001. ISBN 956-19-0337-7. Chile's mushrooms and
fungi: Description, habitat, distribution, glossary, identification key
for genera and species, large photos with photo site identified.
Flora de los Andes de
Coquimbo: Cordillera de Doña Ana. F.
Squeo, R. Osorio, G. Arancio. 1994. ISBN956-7393-01-X. Maps of the
region of Coquimbo, 111 color photos of flowers both habitat and closeups, some
keys, about a half a page of text on each species, glossary, bibliography,
Spanish. Ediciones Universidad de La Serena. http://www.biouls.cl
Very helpful for species above about 3,000 masl, at about 26-32º S latitude in
Chile.
Libro Rojo de la Flora
Nativa y de los Sitios Prioritarios para su conservación: Regiòn de
Coquimbo. F. Squeo, G. Arancio, J.R.
Guttièrrezditores. 2001. ISBN 956-7393-12-2. Lots of
data over threatened endemics, colored photos, comes with CD rom. In Spanish.
Ediciones Universidad de La Serena. Can be ordered online at http://www.biouls.cl
Plantas medicinales silvestres de uso tradicional en la localidad de
Paposo, Costa del Desierto de Atacama, II Región, Chile, Guido
Gutierrez G.and Leonel Lazo Salinas. 1996. In Spanish.
Maps, medicinal plants and their historic uses in the Paposo area (just south of
Antofagasto and north of Taltal). Great bibliography of old
resources. May be out of print now.
Flora Nativa de
valor ornamental, identificacion y propagacion (Central
Chile) by
Paulina Riedemann and Gustavo Aldunate, 2001. ISBN 956-13-1737-0. The volume has 2 parts,
one of which is a 134 page section on trails and roads in the central
region. The larger volume
contains photos, descriptions of the trees, flowers, bushes, and vines, and includes tips on
propagation. Text in
Spanish.
Flora Nativa
de valor ornamental, identificacion y propagacion (Northern
Chile coastal) Paulina
Riedemann, Gustavo Aldunate and Sebastián Teillier. 2006. ISBN
956-299-432-5. Like other volumes, it comes in 2 parts, one with information over
identification and propagation of wild plants, and the
second part contains information over foot trails and roads that lead to the
vegetation and habitats discussed. Note that the book covers mostly coastal
areas, with the emphasis on Chile's 3rd region. Can be ordered from
Corporacion Parque y Centro Cultural Botanico Chagual. Vitacura, Santiago,
Chile. email: mvlegassa@gmail.com
Le Jardin Botanique Alpin du
Lautaret: the results of their botanical expedition to Chile.
Many photos of Chilean
wildflowers, list by families, very helpful.
"The Andean Botanical Information System (ABIS) presents information from
floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants (phanerogams) of
Andean South America. It will take you days to see all of what this site has to
offer.
Chloris Chilensis, Revista Chilena de Flora y
Vegetación. Online journal
with keys for identification of Ranunculus, Chenopodium, Paraveraceae, Convolvulaceae,
lists of plants in varous areas, new species for Chile, always
worth checking out the new issues.
The data
sheet for the Lomas
Formations of the Atacama Desert, part of the Smithsonian Institution Project
Centres of Plant Diversity The rationale for the project is the concern
about the rapid global loss and degradation of natural ecosystems and the urgent
need to highlight areas of pristine botanical importance, with the hope that
these will receive adequate levels of resources to ensure their
protection.
Central Andean dry puna (NT1001).
"This ecoregion
is a very dry, high elevation montane grassland and herbaceous community of the
southern high Andes, extending through western Bolivia and northern Chile and
Argentina. The vegetation is characteristically tropical alpine herbs with dwarf
shrubs, and occurs above 3500 m between the tree-line and the permanent
snow-line. Dry puna is distinguished from other types of puna............
" Also check out Atacama desert (NT1303),
in the same series. Be sure to click the link to the
"scientific report" (at the bottom of their page) as the preliminary
paragraphs presented are sketchy.
Historía Natural de un Valle en los Andes: La Paz. Eduardo Forno,
Mario Baudoin. 1991. Paperback, 559 pp. Edited by Instituto de Ecología - UMSA, Casilla
de Correo Central 10077, La Paz, Bolivia. Deposito Legal No. 4-1-34-91. Ecology of
a high altitude valley in Bolivia that has much in common with the precordillera and
altiplano near Putre. Good descriptions of bofedales. Bibliography. In Spanish. A
possible source for this book is
nhbs.co.uk/index.html
Flores del Norte Chico, 2a edición. 1985 By Melica
Muñoz Schick. Dirección de Bibliotecas,
Archivos y Museos, 1985 Inscription No. 62.208. Photos
(closeups and habitat) and descriptions of 66 species found at the
latitude between about 27 to 35 S.
Geografía del Perú: Las ocho regiones naturales, La
regionalización transversal, La sabiduría ecológica tradicional.
by Javier Pulgar Vidal, 10th edition, 1996, PEISA. ISBN
9972-40-027-3 Divides Peru into 8 ecological regions, and
introduces each area's flora, fauna, geography, culture,
climate. In Spanish.
Conserving the Biological Diversity of the Polylepis
woodlands of the highlands
of Peru and Bolivia: A Contribution to Sustainable Natural Resource Management in the
Andes. Fjeldsa and Kessler 1996. ISBN 87-986168-0-3.
Deforestation in the high Andes. This book is important also for Chile, as several
birds in northern Chile are strongly specialized to Polylepis, including the
Giant Conebill, and other little-known birds in northern Chile use
Polylepis seasonally -- the Rufous-webbed Tyrant, Tamarugo
Conebill, and
D'orbigny's Chat Tyrant among them. In Chile, Polylepis is going fast. The book is
required reading for those interested in altiplano ecology and should be distributed
widely for use by government agencies, NGOs, Peace Corps, and others developing
environmental and reforestation projects. Has key to the many species of
Polylepis, lists
of birds recorded in Polylepis (with localities), priorities for collection of biological
data, extent of existing Polylepis forests in Peru and Bolivia,
descriptions of other high altitude trees, historical distribution, evolution of
Polylepis, etc. Extensive bibliography.
Páramos: a checklist of plant
diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature:
James Luteyn, 1999. ISBN 0-89327-427-5 Memoirs of
the New York Botanical Garden Vol 84. Lichens, mosses, hepatics,
vascular plants, aso gazetteer of Páramo localities. Although directed to the
páramo area of the Andes, (wetter than the
Lauca puna habitat) many of the same genera are present in
Chile.
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Oasis de Niebla: El Niño 1997
by Raquel Pinto. 1999. Registro Propiedad Intelectual Inscripcion no. 111.961,
Santiago de Chile. From the book jacket: "She
roamed over the higher tops of the Iquique coastal hills searching for
wildflowers. She found over 70 plants species on the hills overlooking the
ocean." Photographs with text in English and Spanish.
Available from the author who lives in
Iquique.
A Cactus Odyssey:
Journeys in the wilds of Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina
by James Mauseth,
Roberto Kiesling, Carlos Ostolaza, 2002. ISBN0-88192-526-8. Informative
and amusing adventures of 3 botanists looking for elusive cacti in
remote areas. But not really a travel book, it's interspersed with growing
tips and anatomy and taxonomy lessons, and is useful for beginners and
professionals in the field.
Flora Ilustrada Altoandina , La relación
entre hombre, planta, y medio ambiente en el Ayllu Majasaya Mujlli
(Prov. Tapacari, Dpto Cochabamba, Bolivia: Pestalozzi and
Torrez, 1998. ISBN 99905-48-00-5 Although
written for an area of Andean Bolivia, the book contains line
drawings, photos, and brief descriptions of many of the same genera
and species found in the Lauca area. In Spanish. Cactus and Succulent Journal Included lately has been
information focusing on cactus of Bolivia, with some articles coming on
cactus of the high Andes of Peru. QUEPO
is the journal of the Sociedad Peruana de Cactus y
Suculentas. Deals with cactus of Peru, and anything having to do with cactus of
Peru such as art, ethnobotany, food, poetry, literature. Support the
conservation of cactus in Peru and subscribe. Information from Dr. Carlos
Ostolaza fax 511 476 2102. Also Quepo has a page on cactus-mall.com Plantas
Altoandinas en la Flora Silvestre de Chile.
A. Hoffman, MK Arroyo, F. Liberona, M. Muñoz, J. Watson. 1998. ISBN
956-7743-00-2 280 pp. Illustrated with color drawings, covers from
about 28 to 41 S latitude, from about Copiapo to Osorno, high Andes
habitats. Guia
de Arboles de Bolivia. T. Killeen, E. Gargcia. E., S. Beck,
editores. 1993. Nearly 1,000 pp over trees of Bolivia, in Spanish
with full page BW line drawings, lots of information. 42 page key to
families. Herbario Nacional de Bolivia and Missouri Botanical
Garden.
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