Sandemania is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. The only known species is Sandemania hoehnei.[1]
Its native range is southern Tropical America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil (northern and west-central), Peru and Venezuela.
The genus name of Sandemania is in honour of Christopher Albert Walter Sandeman (1882–1951), an English botanist and traveler. He collected in South America.[2] The Latin specific epithet of hoehnei refers to Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959), a Brazilian botanist.[3] The genus was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939, onpage 480 in 1939.[1] The species was then first published in Phytologia Vol.20 on page 370 in 1970.