The first major regional flora ever written in Spanish, Flora
Mesoamericana is a collaborative effort of the Missouri
Botanical Garden the Instituto de Biología of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Natural History
Museum, London, and numerous specialists world-wide. In Spanish,
the Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants
growing in the southeasternmost states of Mexico (including the
Yucatán Peninsula) and all the Central American republics. The
project publishes its results in this Internet version (W3FM),
as well as in printed volumes. W3FM first appeared on the
Internet in 1994 from the Natural History Museum server. It is
currently being made available from a Missouri Botanical Garden
server and was converted to a real-time version during October
1997. UNAM published the first printed volume, Volume 6:
Alismataceae a Cyperaceae in March 1994, and Volume 1:
Psilotaceae a Salviniaceae was published in November 1995. Books
are available through the Missouri Botanic