August Wilhelm Dennstedt

August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt, was a German medical doctor and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere.

He was the taxonomic author of numerous botanical taxa; three examples being the genera Bruxanelia, Coulejia and Merremia. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus". The genus Dennstaedtia <small>Bernh.</small> (family Dennstaedtiaceae) is named in his honor.

Published works

• Weimar's Flora: Pflanzen mit deutlichen Geschlechtern, Volume 1, 1800.
• Pflanzen mit Luftgefäßen, 1807.
• Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis, 1810.
• Das Gewächsreich: oder characterisirende Beschreibung aller zur Zeit bekannten Gewächse.
• Hortus Belvedereanus. Oder Verzeichniss der bestimmten Pflanzen, 1820.

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