Neolehmannia

Kranzlin , in Engler ,Bot. Jahrb . 26 (1899), 478.

Laelieae . III. Gr. neos (new , i. e. , a second genus named for...), Lehmann (personal name) . Dedicated to the German botanist and explorer Herr F.C. Lehmann (1850-1903) ,German consul in Popayan , Colombia , from 1878 until his death , collector in Guatemala , Costa Rica , but especially in Colombia and Ecuador , giving particular attention to the orchids ,many unusual species of which he introduced to horticulture through British importers , and student of Masdevallia in which genus he made numerous outstanding discoveries in the Andes.