Friedrich Carl Lehmann

Friedrich Carl Lehmann (27 November 1850 – 23 November 1903) was a German Consul to Colombia, mining engineer, amateur botanist and mycologist, and botanical collector.

Friedrich Carl Lehmann
Born(1850-11-27)27 November 1850
Germany
DiedNovember 23, 1903(1903-11-23) (aged 52)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
Fields

Career

Lehmann conducted explorations in search of specimens of flora in the countries of Ecuador and Colombia over three decades, sending collected material to herbaria in Berlin-Dahlem, Kew, and Saint Petersburg. In 1903 he led an expedition to Popayán, Colombia, and passed through most of the provinces of Ecuador, in a search for orchids.

Family

Lehmann's grandson, 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,[1] which is endemic to Colombia and Ecuador.[2] Also, in 1895, botanist Ernest Friedrich Gilg published a genus of flowering plants from Columbia and Peru (belonging to the family Gentianaceae) as Lehmanniella in his honour.[3]

References
  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Lehmann, F. C.", p. 154).
  2. Species Atractus lehmanni at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Lehmanniella Gilg | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
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