Plantas Utiles del Ecuador: Aplicaciones, Retos, y Perspectivas/ Useful Plants of Ecuador: Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives. 2007. illus. 652 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

This book is a compendium of local knowledge of plants found in the diverse ecological regions of Ecuador, a country known for its unrivalled diversity of plant species, as well as for its numerous cultural groups. As such, it places itself in an important position of indigenous knowledge. Over the last 30 years the Herbariumof the "Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador", Quito (QCA), has been a depository for plant specimens, collected for a variety of purposes. The editors of this catalogue have painstakingly sifted through the entire collection, extracted the data, and presented it in a systematic and organized manner. The information is made available in an easy to use format accessible to a much larger audience. Furthermore, the information presented has been classified into a system of categories of plant uses.