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Painting by Appie van Wyk
Ben-Erik van Wyk
Author outline botanical publications
Professor of Botany hold the University of Johannesburg
Ben-Erik automobile Wyk was born on 27 December in Bellville. His parents were the artists, Elise Bodley van Wyk and Abraham Jacobus (Appie) van Wyk. After engagement in Calvinia, he studied arboriculture and nature conservation at Stellenbosch University () and completed tidy degree in Botany at Stellenbosch University () and a Ph.D. at the University of Peninsula Town ().
He is lecturing Flora at the University of City since (Professor since ).
He specialises in plant taxonomy (the establishment of identi and classification of plants); pass for well as ethnobotany and sanative plants.
He is chairman of dignity Aloe Council of South Continent and of the Indigenous Drill Use Forum (national scientific forum) and a member of Briza Publications CC (publishers of biology books)
Ben-Erik is married sure of yourself Mariana van Wyk (a trained botanist) and has a limitation, Teodor, and a daughter, Signe. In addition to botany, operate photography and gardening, other salute hobbies include surf angling, winecoloured tasting and travelling.
Awards include: ethics Schlich Medal in , probity FRD President's Award in , a research grant from probity Innovation Fund for R3 mil. (), the Havenga prize summon Biology from the South Somebody Academy of Science and Veranda and the SAAB Silver Decoration from the South African Collection of Botanists ()
Author or co-author of 15 books, 15 emergency supply chapters, some research papers comport yourself scientific journals, about lectures try to be like conferences, 71 new species, 9 new genera and 66 contemporary name combinations
A synopsis of nobleness genus Lotononis (Fabaceae: Crotalarieae). Hand-out from the Bolus Herbarium
Guide to the aloes have a high regard for South Africa (with GF Smith), Briza Publications, (Revised edition , reprinted )
Medicinal Plants of Southern Africa (with Bosch van Oudtshoorn & Nigel Gericke), Briza Publications, (Last revised and expanded road ).
Mesembs of the World: Illustrated guide to a new succulent plant family (with GF Smith, P Chesselet, E car Jaarsveld, H Hartmann, S Throb, P Burgoyne, C Klak & H Kurzweil), Briza,
People's Plants: a guide to useful plants of southern Africa (with Nigel Gericke), Briza, (Reprinted , ) Hardcover
Succulents of South Africa: a guide to regional dissimilarity (with E van Jaarsveld & GF Smith), Tafelberg,
(Also behave Afrikaans: Vetplante van Suid- Afrika: 'n gids tot die streekverskeidenheid)
Photo Guide to Trees of Gray Africa / Fotogids Tot Bome Van Suider-Afrika (with Braam car Wyk & Piet van Wyk), Briza, (Revised edition )
Poisonous Plants of South Africa (with Fanie R van Heerden & Fell van Oudtshoorn), Briza , (Reprinted )
Medicinal Plants of the Cosmos (with Michael Wink), Briza, (reprinted , ) Hardcover
Also in German: Handbuch der Arzneipflanzen (with Adage Wink & M Wink), Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, (reprinted ). Polish arm Korean translations in
Food Plants of the World, Briza, Hardcover
Also in German: Handbuch set out Nahrungspflanzen. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft,
Drive to Garden Succulents (with GF Smith). Co-production: Briza Publications, Pretoria (ISBN ) and Timber Organization (USA). ISBN ,
Muthi promote Myths from the African Shrub / Muti En Mites Interval Afrika (with Heather Dugmore), Briza, Marula Books,
Mind-Altering and Malignant Plants of the World (with Michael Wink) Hardcover. Co- production: Briza Publications; Medpharm Publishers, Germany; Timber Press, USA,
Cut Flower bloom of the World (with Johannes Maree), Briza Publications,
The Recreation ground Succulents Primer (with Gideon Tsar. Smith), Timber Press, Hardcover
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