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Painting by Appie van Wyk
Ben-Erik van Wyk
Author of botanical publications
Professor of Botany at the University of Johannesburg
Ben-Erik van Wyk was born on 27 December 1956 in Bellville.
Ben erik van wyk biography of abraham
His parents were the artists, Elise Bodley van Wyk and Abraham Jacobus (Appie) van Wyk. After matriculation in Calvinia, he studied forestry and nature conservation at Stellenbosch University (1976-1979) and completed a M.Sc.
degree in Botany at Stellenbosch University (1983) and a Ph.D. at the University of Cape Town (1989).
He is lecturing Botany at the University of Johannesburg since 1984 (Professor since 1990).
He specialises in plant taxonomy (the naming and classification of plants); as well as ethnobotany and medicinal plants.
He is chairman of the Aloe Council of South Africa and of the Indigenous Plant Use Forum (national scientific forum) and a member of Briza Publications CC (publishers of botanic