1. Foreword

   • Bruce A. Stein

   Announcement Pages: 1 - 3

2. Plant evolution and endemism in Andean South America: An introduction

   • Kenneth R. Young
   • Carmen Ulloa Ulloa
   • Sandra Knapp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 4 - 21

3. Assessing patterns of plant endemism in neotropical uplands

   • Sandra Knapp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 37

4. Observations on the biogeography of the Amotape-Huancabamba Zone in northern Peru

   • Maximilian Weigend

   OriginalPaper Pages: 38 - 54

5. Diversity, adaptation, and endemism in neotropical Ericaceae: biogeographical patterns in the Vaccinieae

   • James L. Luteyn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 87

6. The significance of the Northern Andes for lichens

   • H. J. M. Sipman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 88 - 99

7. Environmental patterns and ecological correlates of range size among bromeliad communities of Andean Forests in Bolivia

   • Michael Kessler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 100 - 127

8. Biogeography of theOxalis tuberosa alliance

   • Eve Emshwiller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 128 - 152

9. Phylogeny, morphology, and biogeography ofChuquiraga, an Andean-Patagonian genus of Asteraceae-Barnadesioideae

   • Cecilia Ezcurra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 170

10. Reconstruction of the biogeographical history of Malesherbiaceae

    • Karla Gengler-Nowak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 188