Mauritian botanist and mycologist.
Paul Octave Wiehe CBE (1910-1975) was a Mauritian botanist. Wiehe was born on 21 October 1910, in Labourdonnais, Rivière du Rempart. He obtained a scholarship in 1930 to study at the Mauritius College of Agriculture. He went on to Imperial College in London where he obtained a degree Botany and became an Associate of the Royal College of Science. He returned to Mauritius as a teacher at the Royal College, Mauritius (1933-1935). He was then employed by the Colonial Agricultural Services as a Plant Pathologist in the Department of Agriculture, Mauritius, and transferred to Nyasaland in 1948, whe