Check-list des Plantes Vasculaires du Burundi /Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Burundi. 2024. 672 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

The Checklist of vascular plants of Burundi provides a comprehensive enumerative list of the plants known to occur as spontaneously in the country. The checklist is based on herbarium collection data supplemented with field observations and nformation obtained from literature. The book comprises 3,860 species of vascular plants grouped in 1,290 genera and 216 families. In addition to the correct scientific name, each taxon listed comes with its, (i) its most important synonym(s), (ii) its vernacular name(s) (when available) in Kirundi, (iii) a bibliographic reference; (iv) the
citation of all known herbarium specimens, (v) and its distribution map acrossBurundi.

The book and an associated a dynamic website - which will keep the dataset maintained and updated - will serve as a valuable basic information resource for planning further floristic exploration and for all future studies on the flora and its conservation.