Bernard de Winter

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Bernard de Winter
Born(1924-07-31)31 July 1924
Died8 May 2017(2017-05-08) (aged 92)
Pretoria
Education Pretoria University
Spouse(s) Mayda Doris de Winter
Scientific career
Fields Botany

Bernard de Winter (31 July 1924 - 8 May 2017 Pretoria) was a South African botanist who from 1973 was Director of the Botanical Research Institute, which later became the National Botanical Institute [1] and then the South African National Biodiversity Institute.

He attended Pretoria University from 1942 to 1946, and was awarded an MSc in 1947.[ citation needed ] After teaching for a period, he joined the staff of the National Herbarium, and was made Officer in Charge of Botanical Survey in 1959, and Assistant Director in 1963.[ citation needed ] His main contributions to botany have been publications on Ebenaceae and Gramineae, especially the genus Eragrostis .[ citation needed ]

He is commemorated in Kirkia dewinteri , Aloe dewinteri , Silene dewinteri and other taxa. The Pedaliaceae genus of Dewinteria is named after him, [2] with the single curious species D. petrophila from the Kaokoveld in Namibia.

His collection of some 9 500 specimens is housed in Pretoria with duplicates in several herbaria including Kew and Windhoek. They were collected between 1947 and 1975 on his own or together with Willi Giess, D. S. Hardy, O. A. Leistner, W. Marais or J. Wiss. His main collecting areas were Pretoria and northwards to Messina, Kruger National Park, Namibia, Northern Cape, Okavango, Kaokoveld, Botswana, Matopos, Caprivi Strip.[ citation needed ]

Bernard de Winter together with his wife Mayda, and botanist D. J. B. Killick, were responsible for the publishing of "Sixty-six Transvaal Trees" in 1966 [3] on the occasion of South Africa's Republic Festival.

The standard author abbreviation De Winter is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [4]

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  3. Tinnea apiculataRobyns & Lebrun - eastern Africa from Rwanda to Mozambique
  4. Tinnea barbataVollesen - Swaziland, northern South Africa
  5. Tinnea barteriGürke - western Africa
  6. Tinnea benguellensisGürke - Angola
  7. Tinnea coeruleaGürke - Zaïre, Zambia, Angola
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  9. Tinnea galpiniiBriq. - Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa
  10. Tinnea gossweileriRobyns & Lebrun - Angola
  11. Tinnea gracilisGürke - Tanzania to Zambia
  12. Tinnea mirabilis(Bullock) Vollesen - Tanzania
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  14. Tinnea platyphyllaBriq. - Zaïre
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References

  1. ↑ "Pretoria National Botanical Garden". Gauteng Tourism Authority. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ↑ De Winter, B.; De Winter, M.; Killick, D.J.B. (1966). Sixty-six Transvaal Trees. National tree list for South Africa. Botanical Research Inst. with the Department of Forestry.
  4. ↑ IPNI.  De Winter.


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