mr fab is now dr pea

In gathering the botanical data for his PhD, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Brian du Preez clocked up some impressive numbers scouring the Greater Cape Floristic Region’s (GCFR) remote regions: hundreds of kilometres on foot, in and out of mountains and kloofs, and thousands by car. In that time, he surveyed 150 different taxa, collected specimens of 50 undescribed Indigofera species, discovered a further three new species, and rediscovered two species thought to be extinct.

read on!!

http://www.news.uct.ac.za/news/graduation/2023/july/-article/2023-07-21-phd-graduand-clocks-vast-distances-on-foot-collecting-150-taxa-including-50-undescribed-species?fbclid=IwAR0BGP7kFVhgy8uhx6Xf_QL-E71hXk2SdmX1mMZAPEA7Rz7l_sCt-OBLTWQ

Posted on July 21, 2023 07:53 PM by tonyrebelo