Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp

Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp(7 February 1888 inDordrecht– 21 December 1984) was a Dutchbotanist.

He received his education at theUniversity of Utrecht,and performed as a botanical researcher inIndonesiaandSouth Africa.In South Africa he collaborated with German botanistHerold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt(1903–1977).

From 1924 to 1931 he was a professor atTransvaal UniversityinPretoria,where he conducted studies of the genusPavetta.During this time period he collected plants from northernTransvaal,Rhodesia,andMozambique.A portion of his career was spent at theherbariumin Utrecht, where he specialized in studies ofRubiaceaeandAcanthaceae.

Eponymy

Bremekampia(Acanthaceae)

Batopedina(Rubiaceae)

Toddaliopsis bremekampii(Rutaceae)

Written works

• "A revision of the South African species of Pavetta", 1929
• Sciaphyllum, genus novum Acanthacearum,1940
• "Materials for a monograph of the Strobilanthinae (Acanthaceae)", 1944
• "Notes on the Acanthaceae of Java", 1948
• "A preliminary survey of the Ruelliinae (Acanthaceae) of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea", 1948
• "The African species of Oldenlandia L Sensu Hiern et K. Schumann", 1952
• "A revision of the Malaysian Nelsonieae (Scrophulariaceae)", 1955
• "The Thunbergia species of the Malesian area", 1955.
• "Remarks on the position, the delimitation and the subdivision of the Rubiaceae", 1966.

References

• JSTOR Plant Science Bremekamp,Cornelis Eliza Bertus (1888–1984) – biography