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Wessel Marais
South African botanist
Wessel Marais B.Sc., M.Sc.
Wessel marais biography of nancy
(1929-2013) was a South African botanist and plant collector.[1][2][3]
Wessel was born in Colesberg, Northern Cape Province, on 28 December 1929,[4][5] the youngest of the ten children of Barend Pieter Marais, the last blacksmith and wagon builder of Colesberg, who was of French Huguenot descent.[6] He studied at Pretoria University (1947-1951) where he obtained an M.Sc.
in Botany for the thesis 'A Morphological study of an indigenous species of rice, Oryza barthii A. Chev.'.[7] He then (1952) joined the National Herbarium (PRE) where he undertook fieldwork during an internship in Kruger National Park and in Namibia.
From 1953 to 1955 he was director of the Albany Museum Herbarium (GRA) in Grahamstown, where he studied South African Cruciferae for the Flora of Southern Africa.[8] He carried out collecting trips to the Southwestern C