Inventario de la flora vascular de Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Bogota, D.C. is a highly diverse territory in the tropical Andes, with more than 70% rural area, where high mountain ecosystems predominate. Despite its species richness and floristic diversity, an inventory of the species of the vascular flora of the District has not been gathered until now. For this reason, the first inventory of the native and non-native vascular flora of this region is presented as a result of the revision and curation of botanical specimens of herbaria, the compilation of published information, and field explorations between 2012 and 2019 focused on the least sampled areas, resulting in a total of 42,845 botanical records. 3017 species, 1013 genera, and 194 families of vascular plants are reported, with Asteraceae (117 genera/348 species), Orchidaceae (38/232), Poaceae (75/186), Fabaceae (40/112), and Lamiaceae (26/94) as the most species-rich families. This list includes several hybrids and cultivars which also contribute to the richness of the capital district’s flora. This inventory will serve as a baseline to develop studies in conservation, restoration, and ecology within the district, and as an invitation to botanists to perform future taxonomic revisions in order to enrich the knowledge on the flora of Bogota.