The Orchid Collections and Illustrations of Consul Friederich C. Lehmann

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Lankesteriana. International Journal of Orchidology Vol. 20, No. 23. Friederich Carl Lehmann (1850-1903) collected orchids and other plants in Colombia and Ecuador over a period of almost three decades from 1876. He was by profession a commercial plant collector and German Consul in Colombia. His extensive preserved collections of herbarium specimens and illustrations of the plants that he collected form one of the most significant archives of the plants of the northern Andes. The main target of his plant-hunting was orchids, and the most important collection of his preserved plants is now held in the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He also painted many of the plants that he collected, and his iconography is now in the Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where almost 1000 paintings are deposited.

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