Ostlund K.E.M. Collection of drawings of Mexican orchids |
This collection of Mexican orchids with diagnostic notes is kept in Mexico. The areas of most
active collecting were in the mountainous regions of the following states: Chiapos, Colimo,
Distrito Federal, Durango, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca,
Puebla, San Luis Potosi and Veracruz.
Östlund's herbarium specimens proved to be the single most important collection of orchids in
the New World.
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