Biography
Fortunato Luciano Herrera Garmendia, Peruvian botanist, ethnographer, historian, geographer and mineralogist (Cusco 13 December 1873 – Lima 13 April 1945)
Authored over 200 papers and 20 books
Proposed the use of Krameria triantha natural products
Authored Contribución a la flora del Departamento del Cusco (1921), with native synonyms, varieties of food plants and notes of ethnological and historical character
With Russian Y. Yakovlev authored the monumental work El mundo vegetal de los antiguos peruanos (1934), describing the uses of plants in the arts and daily life of old civilizations in Peru (with international repercussion)
DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA
Genera
Aliconia 1921
Hemifuchsia 1936
Species
Aliconia guaco 1921
Cantua hibrida 1921
Cassia florifera 1921
Hemifuchsia yodostoma 1936
Mentha muna 1921
HONOURS
Auxilliary Member, Academie Internationale de Botanique, Le Mans, France
Genus Fortunatia Mcbride 1931 (Asparagaceae)
About 50 plant species bears his name
