Genus Ohlendorffia

For Johann Heinrich Ohlendorff (1788–1857), founder of the nursery Ohlendorff JH & Sons and inspector of the Hamburg Botanical Garden. This garden was founded in 1820 by the German botanist Johan Georg Christian Lehmann (1792–1860) for whom Ohlendorff worked, and it was Lehmann who gave the name to the genus Ohlendorffia. Ohlendorff came from a family of landscape gardeners and nurserymen. Perhaps better known is his famous son Baron Jacob Heinrich Bernard von Ohlendorff (1836–1928), who became immensely rich and a land baron through being involved in the guano fertiliser business and owning both a bank and a publishing and printing business.