Briza Publications author Abraham Erasmus (Braam) van Wyk (1952) grew up on the farm Leeuwfontein near Wolmaransstad, North-West Province. Interested from an early age in the natural sciences and plants in particular, he holds a master’s degree in botany and diploma in higher education from the Potchefstoom University for Christian Higher Education and a doctorate from the University of Pretoria.
Since 1977 he has been a member of the lecturing staff of the University of Pretoria, where he is currently Professor of Botany and Curator of the H.G.W.J. Schweickerdt Herbarium. Braam is an authority on the classification of southern African trees and has a special interest in plant systematics, biogeography, plant anatomy and palynology. Braam and his students/co-workers have published extensively on the botany of southern Africa.
He is the recipient of several awards, including the Silver Medal of the South African Association of Botanists and the Allen Dyer Award of the Succulent Society of South Africa.
Books by Braam van Wyk
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- Photo Guide to Trees Of Southern Africa
- Fotogids tot Bome van Suider-Afrika
- Dictionary of names for southern African trees CD-Rom
More publications by Braam van Wyk
- BORCHERT, P. & VAN WYK, B. 1993. Text IN Funston, M., Bushveld Trees: Lifeblood of the Transvaal Lowveld. Fernwood Press, Cape Town (120 pp.).
- VAN WYK, B. & VAN WYK, P. 1997. Field guide to trees of southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town (536 pp.).
- VAN WYK, B. & MALAN, S. 1988. Field guide to the wild flowers of the Witwatersrand & Pretoria region. C. Struik, Cape Town (352 pp.).
- VAN WYK, B. & MALAN, S. 1988. Veldgids tot die veldblomme van die Witwatersrand- & Pretoria-gebied. C. Struik, Cape Town (352 pp.).
- VAN WYK, B. & MALAN, S. 1997. Field guide to the wild flowers of the Highveld, 2nd edition. Struik Publishers, Cape Town (352 pp.).
- VAN WYK, B. 2000. A photographic guide to wild flowers of South Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town (144 pp.).
- VAN WYK, B., VAN WYK, P. & VAN WYK, B.-E. 2000. Photographic guide to trees of southern Africa. Briza Publications, Pretoria (356 pp.).
- VAN WYK, A.E. & SMITH, G.F. 2001. Regions of floristic endemism in southern Africa: A review with emphasis on succulents. Umdaus Press, Pretoria (209 pp.).
Contact Braam van Wyk
E-mail: braam.vanwyk@up.ac.za
Telephone: (012) 420 2545/4784/4044 (w)
