August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt,[1] was a German physician and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere.[2][3]
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".[4] The genus Dennstaedtia Bernh. (family Dennstaedtiaceae) is named in his honor.[5]
- 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.[6]
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