Category: Visiting students
A new plant species
Dr Nicola Bergh (left) and Zaynab Shaik (right) Buffelskloof has a new species of Seriphium (‘Slangbos’), described by MSc student Zaynab Shaik from the University of Cape Town. She and her supervisor, Dr Nicola Bergh, visited Buffelskloof in July 2017 as part of her country-wide fieldwork towards her study of the genus Serphium (Asteraceae). In…
More than just a Grassland Survey
Dr Caroline Lehmann, from the University of Edinburgh, UK came with her field assistant, Johannesburg-based visual artist Hannelie Coetzee to sample some of the grasslands here. Caroline had just arrived in South Africa from Madagascar, where she had been carrying out surveys of grass species in areas where the genus Loudetia is prevalent and wished…
August 2017
Dr Bronwyn Egan of the University of Limpopo, Polokwane, spent three nights with two students working on the taxonomy of Psychotria capensis, collecting material on Buffelskloof. Prof. Mark Robertson of University of Pretoria, Dept. of Zoology, with 5 MSc students on a thesis-writing retreat, for 4 nights. Dr Michelle Greve (with red jacket) of University…
July 2017
Dr Nicola Bergh (Compton Herbarium, Kirstenbosch) & MSc student Ms Zaynab Shaik (University of Cape Town) visited us to sample the genus Seriphium (syn. Stoebe), as part of a national survey of the variation within the S. vulgaris/plumosus complex. We have a particular large and unusual form which is confined to the escarpment, which they…