Checklist of the plants of the Guiana shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana)
By: by V. Funk ... [et al.].
Contributors: Funk, V. A. 1947-; National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Dept. of Botany.; United States National Herbarium.; Smithsonian Institution.
Series: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium -- v. 55.
Publisher: Dept. of Botany, National Museum of Natural History
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
Subjects: Plants -- Guiana.; Plants -- Guyana Shield.
Description: " . . . includes the countries of Guyana and Surinam, French Guiana (a part of France) and the Venezuelan states of Amazonas, Bolivar, and Delta Amacuro.  The checklist contains 257 vascular plant families with 13,367 species." -- from abstract p. [2].
Notes: At head of title: Smithsonian Institution.

"Volume 55:1-584."

"V. A. Funk" -- p. 7.

Includes lists of alternate names of species ("Synonyms and Misidentifications").

Includes bibliographical references throughout, and indexes to genera and families.