• A guide to the commonly encountered tropical plant families in a portable, easy-to-use handbook• Richly illustrated with each family represented by a full page of photographs (many unpublished), line drawings, herbarium specimens and a distribution map• Written by Kew experts, all of whom regularly work in the tropics and teach on the Kew Tropical Plant Identification course• Follows the new classification system, APG 3, and is arranged according to APG 3• Second edition includes 17 new families described, bringing the total number of families included up to 104