The Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana as the Basis for a Catalog of Venezuelan Vascular Plants

该项目旨在完成对生活在委内瑞拉南部亚马逊森林和瓜亚那高地的近1万种植物的生物清查。研究结果将发表在一本8卷的植物图册上，这是该地区首次出版的图册。该物种及其分布的记录将保存在一个可扩展的计算机数据库中。第1卷是该系列的导论，将为后续分类学卷提供解释性和支持性数据，包括大比例尺植被和地形图，植物区地理细节，以及对该地区发现的植被类型和物种的分析。本卷将以英文和西班牙文两种版本出版，其他卷将以英文出版。从《植物志》中获得的信息将作为制作委内瑞拉所有植物目录的基础，目前估计有15,000种植物，代表着世界上生物多样性最丰富的地区之一。

This project aims at completing a biological inventory of the nearly 10,000 species of plants that inhabit the Amazonian forests and Guayana Highlands in Southern Venezuela. The results will be published in an 8-volume illustrated Flora, the first ever produced for this region. Records of the species and their distributions will be kept in an expandable computer database. Volume 1, the introduction to the series, will provide interpretative and supporting data for the succeeding taxonomic volumes, including large scale vegetation and topographic maps, geographical details of the flora region, and analyses of the vegetation types and species found int he area. This volume will be produced in both English and Spanish editions, while the others will appear in English. The information obtained from the Flora will be used as the foundation to produce a catalog of all of Venezuela's plants, now estimated at 15,000 species and representing one of the world's richest areas of biodiversity.