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The Río Mayo region of northwestern Mexico is a major geographic area whose natural history remains poorly known to outsiders. Lying in a region where desert and tropical, northern and southern, and continental and coastal species converge, it boasts an abundance of flora first documented by Howard Scott Gentry in 1942 in a book now widely regarded as a classic of botanical literature. This new book updates and amends Gentry's Río Mayo Plants. Undertaken with Gentry's support and participation before his death in 1993, it reproduces the original text, which appears here with annotations, and contains information on over 2,800 taxa—more than twice the 1,200 species first described by Gent...
Family history of William Harrison Gentry (1860-1947), son of William R. Gentry and Rebecca Riddle, of Lynnville, Hart Township, Warrick Co., Indiana. He was married in 1882 to Rhoda Ellen Fleener (1860-1954), daughter of James Fleener and Nancy Jane Stephens, also of Lynnville. Family members and descendants live in Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and elsewhere.
Includes basionyms, nomina ruda, invalid, illegitimate and incorrect names, each with a full bibliographic reference. Typification data is included (collector's name and number and herbarium acronym) and for some the country and state/province where the type was collected.
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
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