Flora huayaquilensis
Subtitle: la Expedición Botánica de Juan Tafalla a la Real Audiencia de Quito, 1799-1808.
Contributors: Estrella, Eduardo, 1941-; Núñez, Jorge.; Salvador Lara, Jorge.
Series: Colección Historia de la ciencias ;; no. 2
Publisher: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Centro Cultural Artes
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Quito, Ecuador
Language: spa
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Tafalla, Juan.; Botany -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil (Province) -- History.; Botany -- South America -- History.; Botany -- Spain -- History.; Botanists -- Spain -- History.; Botanists -- South America -- History.; Scientific expeditions -- South America -- History.; Plant introduction -- Spain -- History.
Description: "Essays on Tafalla and his work Flora Huayaqulensis: sive descriptiones et icones plantarum huayaquilensium secundum systema linnaeanum digestae. (Madrid: Instituto ad Conservandam Naturam; Horto Regio Matritense = Real Jardín Botánico, 1989). Tafalla's work publishes results of a royal botanical expedition to the coast and southern highlands between 1799-1808, and includes 217 facsimiles of color drawings of plants. The findings of this expedition (a continuation of the Ruiz and Pavón botanical expedition) were previously unknown. The other members of the expedition and 'coauthours' of the work were botanist Juan Agustín Manzanilla and painters Xavier Cortés and José Gabriel Rivera"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: La expedición de Juan Tafalla y la Flora huayaquilensis ; La naturaleza americana y las expediciones botánicas españolas del siglo XVIII / Eduardo Estrella; title: El Presidente Carondelet / Jorge Núñez; title: Juan Tafalla y la Flora huayaquilensis / Jorge Salvador Lara.