Eastern Cape

South African Wild Flower Guide #11

by John Manning

Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Dr John Charles Manning (born 1962) is a South African botanist based in the Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch, South Africa.

The standard author abbreviation J.C.Manning is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Although primarily a plant taxonomist, his wide-ranging interests include pollination biology, anatomy, evolution and speciation, and popular botany. He has written or co-authored over 200 scientific papers and several southern African wild flower guides, mostly illustrated with his photographs. He has a particular interest in popularising southern Africa’s wild flowers.

Dr Manning’s contributions to botany have been impressive and extensive, including many popular as well as professional contributions. The contribution made by Dr Manning to systematics in Southern Africa has been of huge significance over many years, in terms of their scientific papers and curation of African herbarium collections in South Africa and North America.