Orchids of the Southern Cone (1830-2000) - Part III : Karl Friedrich Reiche's Orchidaceae Chilensis and a commentary about Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin's Orchidacearum Genera et Species (Vol. 2, Part I) /
Karl Reiche (1860-1929), a German botanist, arrived in Chile in 1889 as a professor at the Lyceum in the city of Constitución. He was attracted by the country's climate and its traditional friendliness to German immigrants. A few years later, in 1897, Federico Phillippi, Director of the Museo...
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