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Common name:  None known.

Latin name and synonyms: Lehmanniella Gilg (1895)

Etymology: Lehmanniella was probably named after Karl [Carl] Friedrich Lehmann (1850–1903). Lehmann was the German consul in Popayán, Colombia, and he was also an avid collector of plants both in Colombia and Ecuador. He drowned when crossing a river in South America and it is uncertain if it was an accident or if he got murdered. Most of his collections were in the Berlin herbarium where Ernst Gilg worked. (During WWII most of the collections of the  Berlin herbarium was destroyed.) 

Species:  Two species only.

Distribution:   High elevation areas in mountains, one species in Colombia and the other in Peru.

Habitat:  Cloud forests.

Characteristics:  Herbaceous or slightly woody plants, with scandent branches. Leaves ovate to elliptic leave. Inflorescence terminal umbels, few-flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx campanulate; lobes elliptic, rounded at apex. Corolla narrow, red, tubular, inflated; lobes short and rounded. Stamens inserted near base of corolla tube; anthers sagittate, with small sterile apical appendage. Gynoecium with glandular disk; style long; stigma with narrow lobes. Fruit a woody capsule.

Evolution and related plants:  Lehmanniella is most likely closely related to Lagenanthus and Purdieanthus in tribe Helieae, but no phylogenetic data is available.

Economic uses:  None known.

Notes: Lehmanniella included Lagenanthus and Purdieanthus in some treatments.

Accepted species (synonyms in parenthesis) and their distribution:

References and publications: 

Ewan, J. 1948. A review of Purdieanthus and Lehmanniella, two endemic Colombian genera of Gentianaceae, and biographical notes on Purdie and Lehmann. Caldasia 5: 85-98.

Maas, P. J. M. 1985. Nomenclatural notes on neotropical Lisyantheae (Gentianaceae). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Ser. C, 88: 405-412.

Struwe, L., J. W. Kadereit, J. Klackenberg, S. Nilsson, M. Thiv, K. B. von Hagen, & V. A. Albert. 2002. Systematics, character evolution, and biogeography of Gentianaceae, including a new tribal and subtribal classification. Pp. 21-309. In: L. Struwe & V. A. Albert (eds.), Gentianaceae: Systematics and Natural History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

© Lena Struwe, 2004