Orchid  Australian 1900 Lindma

Botany Orchid Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856-1928)

Plate 411 A.Listera Ovata B. Listera cordata

Both are "twayblade" orchids characterised by two broad leaves emanating from the stem. Listeria cordata  is known as the "Heart-leaved Twayblade"growing in peat-moss hummocks in conifer forests in cool northern areas and mountains. Both occur in temperate Asia, North America and Europe.

Genuine antique chromolithograph botanical after artist Carl Lindman.

Lindman was the Professor of the Botany Department at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in 1905. He had traveled on many botanical journeys to Europe, Africa and South America by that time and had become a revered botanist. ahe his best remembered for his comprehensive botanical work, "Bilder ur Nordens Flora", published A. Börtzells Stockholm, Sweden 1901-1905. Lindman was appointed Professor of Botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Condition: Excellent

Paper Size 165 x 240

Print Size 165 x 240