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Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann

German, 1762 - 1835
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Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann, a German soldier, artist and naturalist arrived in the Cape Colony in the service of the Dutch East India Company in 1784, and was probably a member of the Württemberg Regiment. Wehdemann was the son of a church minister and enjoyed a sound education.

During the British occupation (1795-1803) he gave drawing classes, and with the Dutch reoccupation (1803-1806) he re-entered army service. With the British reoccupation of the Cape, he settled at Plettenberg Bay in the Eastern Cape, collecting botanical specimens for Joseph Mackrill (1762-1820), a practitioner with a special interest in medicinal plants. Mackrill established a garden and trial ground for crops in Somerset East, occasionally sending herbarium material to the British Museum.

Wehdemanne developed an interest in indigenous trees and produced a number of sets of annotated paintings, some of species new to science. Two of these ended up in the libraries of the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one with the National Botanical Institute in Pretoria and one with the Parliamentary Library in Cape Town. In addition to these he prepared hinged, book-like boxes, the wood and bark forming the box, and its contents, all being from the same tree species; the contents consisting of fruit and seeds, pressed leaves and flowers, together with drawings or paintings and a description. Similar boxes were to be found only in Japan and Europe.

Wehdemann died destitute on the Baviaans River farm "Lichtenstein" belonging to his friend, Ludwig Krebs, the noted Prussian collector. He was commemorated in Ichthyosma wehdemanni Schltdl. in the Balanophoraceae, which turned out to be a synonym of Sarcophyte sanguinea Sparrm.

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Aphyteia hydnora  [Nymphaea nouchali]

Aphyteia hydnora [Nymphaea nouchali] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Arnica [Oldenburgia grandis]

Arnica [Oldenburgia grandis] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Asclepias grandiflora [Pachycarpus grandiflorus]

Asclepias grandiflora [Pachycarpus grandiflorus] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Bignoniae Nova Specie [Rhigozum obovatum]

Bignoniae Nova Specie [Rhigozum obovatum] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Brunswigia [Ammocharis coranica]

Brunswigia [Ammocharis coranica] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Brunswigia [Brunsvigia grandiflora]

Brunswigia [Brunsvigia grandiflora] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Calodendrum capense

Calodendrum capense (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Capparis Nov. Sp. [Maerua caffra]

Capparis Nov. Sp. [Maerua caffra] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Celastrus [Apodytes dimidiata]

Celastrus [Apodytes dimidiata] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
2 species of Carisfa arduina [Carissa haematocarpa]

2 species of Carisfa arduina [Carissa haematocarpa] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Cisfus Nov. Sp. [Cyphostemma quinatum]

Cisfus Nov. Sp. [Cyphostemma quinatum] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Cleome juncea. [Cadaba aphylla]

Cleome juncea. [Cadaba aphylla] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Convolvulus [Ipomoea oenotheroides]

Convolvulus [Ipomoea oenotheroides] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Cucumis, Melothria pendula [Coccinea quinqueloba]

Cucumis, Melothria pendula [Coccinea quinqueloba] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Cyrtanthus [Clivia nobilis]

Cyrtanthus [Clivia nobilis] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Cyrtanthus oblig [Cyrtanthus obliquus]

Cyrtanthus oblig [Cyrtanthus obliquus] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Decandria Mon. [Harpephyllum caffrum]

Decandria Mon. [Harpephyllum caffrum] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Didinamia angiosperma [Harveya hyobanchoides]

Didinamia angiosperma [Harveya hyobanchoides] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Erythrina Caffras

Erythrina Caffras (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Erythrina, Nov. Specie [Erythrina humeana]

Erythrina, Nov. Specie [Erythrina humeana] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
Eucomis punctata [Eucomis autumnalis]

Eucomis punctata [Eucomis autumnalis] (1817)

Clemenz Heinrich Wehdemann (German, 1762 - 1835)
Botanical
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