Catalogo alfabetico de los nombres vulgares y cientificos de plantas que existen en el Peru
Publisher: Publicado por la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Popular Plant names; Botanists; Directories; Botany; History
Other titles: Cat. pl. Peru.
Notes: At head of title: Fortunato L. Herrera.

Consists of two sections: Exploraciones botánicas en el Perú (reprinted from Revista Mus. Nac. Lima 6: 296-358, 1937), an annotated list of collectors, with account of regions visited and location of collections from the time of Ruiz and Pavon (1777) to the 1920's; Nombres vulgares con sus respectivas sinonimias científicas, an alphabetical list of vernacular names with botanical equivalents.

Bibliography: p. [362]-363.

Stafleu and Cowan (2nd ed.) 2695