South African National Biodiversity Institute

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Name

South African National Biodiversity Institute
Herbarium Code

PRE
Current Status

Active
Correspondents

Ramagwai Sebola, Chief Director: Biosystematics Reseaarch and Collections, R.Sebola@sanbi.org.za
Erich van Wyk, Deputy Director; National Herbarium Manager, e.vanwyk@sanbi.org.za
Contact

[27] 0 12 843 5000
Fax: [27] 0 12 804 3211
Email: national.herbarium@sanbi.org.za; e.vanwyk@sanbi.org.za
Address

National Herbarium (PRE)
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X 101
Silverton 0184
Republic of South Africa
http://www.sanbi.org/programmes/biosystematics/national-herbarium
Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens

Geography: Southern Africa, but extending to the rest of Africa and surrounding islands
Notes

Updated Oct 2017 (address). The National Herbarium collection currently contains approximately 1.2 million specimens, of which almost 900 000 are databased. Previously held collections of fungi of PRE were transferred to PREM. Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
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Date Founded

1903
Updated

/10/2017
Associated Institution

Associated garden: Pretoria Botanical Garden.
Incorporated Herbaria

JF;
majority of SAAS;
NBG non-vascular cryptogams.;
PRF;
TRV
Important Collectors

J. P. H. Acocks, J. Burtt Davy, L. E. W. Codd, R. H. Compton, B. De Winter, A. Dieterlen, R. A. Dümmer, R. A. Dyer, D. Edwards, F. Eyles, H. G. Flanagan, E. E. Galpin, J. Hutchinson, D. J. B. Killick, O. A. Leistner, R. E. Magill, H. W. R. Marloth, A. M. Pegler, I. B. Pole Evans, A. Rehmann, G. W. Reynolds, F. R. R. Schlechter, H.-J. E. Schlieben, J. C. Smuts, T. R. Sim, H. A. Wager

Correspondents

Ramagwai Sebola, Chief Director: Biosystematics Reseaarch and Collections, R.Sebola@sanbi.org.za
Erich van Wyk, Deputy Director; National Herbarium Manager, e.vanwyk@sanbi.org.za
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