An Illustrated Guide to the Tendrillate Climbers of Cost Rican Mountains. 2005. illustr. 190 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Climbers, such as lianas and vines, are important constituents oftropical forests and perhaps the single most important physiognomic characteristic differentiating tropical from temperate forests,occurring on nearly 50% of forest trees in Central and South America. Despite their widespread nutritional and medicinal use, lianas remainpoorly understood ecologically. This book offers comprehensive coverageof all of the tendrillate lianas of Costa Rica and most of the tendrillate lianas of Central America. It contains excellent keys tofamilies and separate keys to genera and species, current nomenclatureand lists of synonymy when other scientific names have been publishedor used informally. Each species is illustrated by the author'shand-drawn line art.