Friedrich Carl Lehmann (27 November 1850 – 23 November 1903) was a German Consul to

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, mining engineer, amateur botanist and mycologist, and botanical collector.

Career

Lehmann conducted explorations in search of specimens of flora in the countries of

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and

over three decades, sending collected material to herbaria in

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, and

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. In 1903 he led an expedition to

Popayán Popayán () is the capital of the Colombian department of Cauca. It is located in the Pubenza Valley in southwestern Colombia between the Western Mountain Range and Central Mountain Range. The municipality has a population of 318,059, an a ...

, Colombia, and passed through most of the provinces of Ecuador, in a search for orchid

He died reportedly of drowning in the Timbique River but his obituarist Kränzlin noted that it was not known if it was by "an unhappy accident or by malice".

Family

Lehmann married Maria Josefa de Mosquera in Colombia and settled in Popayan. His grandson, Federico Carlos Lehmann, Federico Carlos Lehmann Valencia (1914–1974), was a Colombian ornithologist.

Legacy

Friedrich Carl Lehmann is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, '' Atractus lehmanni'', which is native to Colombia and Ecuador. Also, in 1895, botanist

Ernest Friedrich Gilg Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (12 January 1867 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany – 11 October 1933 in Berlin) was a German botanist. Life Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engle ...

published a genus of

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s from Columbia and Peru (belonging to the family

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) as '' Lehmanniella'' in his honour.

References

External links

Cribb, Phillip (2010). "The orchid collections and illustrations of Consul Friedrich C. Lehmann". ''Lankesteriana'' 10 (2-3): 1-215.
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lehmann, Friedrich Karl 1850 births 1903 deaths Orchidologists 19th-century German botanists Expatriates from the German Empire German expatriates in Colombia