Dehnhardt, Frederick (1787 - 1870)

Summary

Frederick Dehnhardt was chief gardener of L'Hortus Camaldulensis di Napoli, also known as the Camaldoli gardens, a private garden owned by the Count of Camaldoli, near Naples, Italy. Here, Dehnardt grew, and named, the type specimen of the River Red Gum, Eucalyptus camalduensis, in 1832. His botanical specimens are housed in the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.

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Chronology

1829

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus elata Dehnh.

1832

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus procera Dehnh. (= Eucalyptus obliqua L'Her. (1789))

1832

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus linearis Dehnh. (= Eucalyptus pulchella Desf. (1829))

1832

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus gigantea Dehnh. (=Eucalyptus globulus Labill. (1800))

1832

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

• Dehnhardt, Friedrich, Catalogus plantarum Horti Camaldulensis (Naples: 1829), 26 pp. Details
• Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details

Resources

• 'Dehnhardt, Frederick (1787-18701231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1491614. Details

See also

• 'List of eucalypts published under author abbreviation search '% Dehnh.%' (include wildcards) and genus 'Eucalyptus'', Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2012, http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni. Details
• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details