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Bruyns, Peter Vincent (1957-)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Peter Vincent
Last name
Bruyns
Initials
P.V.
Life Dates
1957 -
Collecting Dates
1974 - 2002
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BOL (main), BRI, HNT, K, MO, NBG, P, Wilderness National Park
Countries
Indian region: India, NepalMadagascan region: MadagascarSouthern Africa: Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, BotswanaIndo-China: MyanmarTropical Africa: Tanzania, Eritrea, EthiopiaWestern Asia: Yemen
Associate(s)
Bally, Peter René Oscar (1895-1980) (co-collector)
Bayer, Martin Bruce (1935-) (co-collector)
Burgoyne, Priscilla M. (1964-) (co-author)
Dold, Anthony Patrick (Tony) (1965-) (co-author)
Endress, M.E. (fl. 1988) (co-author)
Forster, Paul Irwin (1961-) (co-author)
Jonkers, H.A. (fl. 1994) (co-author)
Klak, Cornelia (1968-) (co-collector)
Linder, Hans Peter (1954-) (co-author)
Meve, Ulrich (1958-) (co-author)
Miller, Anthony G. (Tony) (1951-) (co-author)
Biography
South African mathematician and botanist. After graduating from the University of Cape Town, he continued his studies in mathematics at Oxford University and obtained his doctorate in 1986. A Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Cape Town since 1987, he also holds a postgraduate degree in botany and works as a Research Associate at the Bolus Herbarium. He has made numerous publications in both subjects, including a monograph of Orbea and Ballyanthus, and on Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar (2005). His collections comprise some 8,000 specimens, mainly of Apocynaceae (especially Ceropegeieae, Marsdenieae), Euphorbia and Crassulaceae, and were made mainly in southern and tropical Africa, but also in Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Yemen. He is commemorated by a mumber of plant names including Aloe bruynsii P.I. Forster, Bulbine bruynsii S.A. Hammer, Euphorbia bruynsii L.C. Leach, Haworthia bruynsii M.B. Bayer (=Haworthia retusa var. bruynsii (M.B.Bayer) Halda), Gethyllis britteniae subsp. bruynsii U. Müll.-Doblies & D. Müll.-Doblies and Scopelogena bruynsii C. Klak.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 90; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 107; Smith, G.F. & Willis, C.K., Index Herb. S. Afr., ed. 2 (1999): 84, 117;

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Peter Vincent
Last name
Bruyns
Initials
P.V.
Life Dates
1957 -
Collecting Dates
1974 - 2002
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BOL (main), BRI, HNT, K, MO, NBG, P, Wilderness National Park
Countries
Indian region: India, NepalMadagascan region: MadagascarSouthern Africa: Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, BotswanaIndo-China: MyanmarTropical Africa: Tanzania, Eritrea, EthiopiaWestern Asia: Yemen
Associate(s)
Bally, Peter René Oscar (1895-1980) (co-collector)
Bayer, Martin Bruce (1935-) (co-collector)
Burgoyne, Priscilla M. (1964-) (co-author)
Dold, Anthony Patrick (Tony) (1965-) (co-author)
Endress, M.E. (fl. 1988) (co-author)
Forster, Paul Irwin (1961-) (co-author)
Jonkers, H.A. (fl. 1994) (co-author)
Klak, Cornelia (1968-) (co-collector)
Linder, Hans Peter (1954-) (co-author)
Meve, Ulrich (1958-) (co-author)
Miller, Anthony G. (Tony) (1951-) (co-author)
Biography
South African mathematician and botanist. After graduating from the University of Cape Town, he continued his studies in mathematics at Oxford University and obtained his doctorate in 1986. A Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Cape Town since 1987, he also holds a postgraduate degree in botany and works as a Research Associate at the Bolus Herbarium. He has made numerous publications in both subjects, including a monograph of Orbea and Ballyanthus, and on Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar (2005). His collections comprise some 8,000 specimens, mainly of Apocynaceae (especially Ceropegeieae, Marsdenieae), Euphorbia and Crassulaceae, and were made mainly in southern and tropical Africa, but also in Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Yemen. He is commemorated by a mumber of plant names including Aloe bruynsii P.I. Forster, Bulbine bruynsii S.A. Hammer, Euphorbia bruynsii L.C. Leach, Haworthia bruynsii M.B. Bayer (=Haworthia retusa var. bruynsii (M.B.Bayer) Halda), Gethyllis britteniae subsp. bruynsii U. Müll.-Doblies & D. Müll.-Doblies and Scopelogena bruynsii C. Klak.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 90; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 107; Smith, G.F. & Willis, C.K., Index Herb. S. Afr., ed. 2 (1999): 84, 117;
Bruyns, Peter Vincent (1957-)
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