Edmund André Charles Lois Eloi Schelpe

South african botanist (1924-1985).

Edmund André Charles Louis Eloi Schelpe aka Ted Schelpe (27 July 1924 Durban - 12 October 1985 Cape Town) was a South African botanist, phytogeographer and taxonomist, specialising in pteridophytes, bryophytes and orchids. He was the son of Edmond Schelpe, lecturer and organist at Natal University, and Martha Clementina Beurms. He was married to fellow botanist Anna Sybella Louisa Gray (1917–2001), the marriage producing 3 children. Schelpe attended Natal University in Pietermaritzburg between 1941 and 1946, graduating with an M.Sc. degree, after which he enrolled at Wadham College, Oxford, fr