Gert Cornelius Nel
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South African botanist
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Gert Cornelius Nel's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of Pretoria
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gert Cornelius Nel was a South African botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation is Nel. The genus Nelia, a flowering plant of the family Aizoaceae, is named in his honor. Biography Nel was born in 1885 in Greytown, Natal Colony on a farm. He earned a BA at the University of Stellenbosch then earned a doctorate in botany at the University of Berlin under both Adolf Engler and Gottlieb Haberlandt. Nel emphasized African plant species in his studies, especially in the families Amaryllidaceae and Hypoxidaceae. He provided numerous first descriptions of species of the genera Forbesia, Ianthe, Hypoxis, and Rhodohypoxis.
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