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Graham Dugald Duncan(born 1959) is a South African botanist and specialist bulb horticulturalist at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa.

Graham Dugald Duncan
Born (1959-11-28) 28 November 1959 (age 62)[1]
CitizenshipSouth African
Alma materUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
Known forSouth African geophytes
AwardsHerbert Medal
Recht Malan Prize
Scientific career
FieldsBotany and horticulture
InstitutionsSANBI, Kirstenbosch
InfluencesWinsome Fanny Barker (1907–1994), curator Compton Herbarium, Kirstenbosch (W.F.Barker).
Author abbrev. (botany)G.D.Duncan

Life


Graham Duncan was born in 1959[2] and grew up in the Western Cape region amongst its wild bulbous plants. He obtained his early education at the Cape Town Technikon with a National Diploma in horticulture,[1][3] and joined the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa in 1978, where he came under the influence of Winsome Fanny Barker (1907–1994), then curator of the Compton Herbarium at Kirstenbosch and a Lachenalia specialist. He earned his MSc (cum laude) in Botany at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg in 2005.[4][5]


Work


Graham Duncan is a specialist horticulturalist for geophytes and curates the indigenous South African geophytes collection at Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. These are displayed in the Kay Bergh Bulb House at the Kirstenbosch Conservatory.[6] He is considered an authority on the cultivation, conservation, propagation and biology of bulbs of the Cape region, and the leading expert on the genus Lachenalia.[7][8][9] His research deals with the biology and taxonomy of Cape bulbs.[5]

Other than his work on Lachenalia[10][11] he is known for his expertise on Nerine,[12] Eucomis and Agapanthus. As well as identifying a number of South African plants,[9] he has also bred cultivars such as Clivia miniata 'Kirstenbosch Splendour', which illustrates the cover of the Kirstenbosch centenary book (2013).[13][14]

He is the author of numerous books, including several titles in the Kirstenbosch Gardening Series, scientific papers and popular articles on South African bulbous plants.[4] He is also a plant collector[2] and plant photographer (see image) and his photographs illustrate his own books and have been published in The Smallest Kingdom: Plants and Plant Collectors at the Cape of Good Hope (2011).[8][9][5]


Awards


In 1989 he was awarded the Recht Malan Prize for non-fiction (1989) from the Nasionale Boekhandel for his Bulbous plants of southern Africa [15] and in 2001 he was the recipient of the International Bulb Society's Herbert Medal.[16][5]


Legacy


Plants for which Duncan is the Botanical authority include many species of Lachenalia, together with W.F.Barker. The International Plant Names Index lists 54 taxa named by him, predominantly species of Lachenalia.[17]

The standard author abbreviation G.D.Duncan is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[18]

Selected publications



Books



Kirstenbosch Gardening Series


Articles



References


  1. Codd & Gunn 1984, Duncan, Graham Dugald
  2. JStor Plants 2016, Duncan, Graham Dugald
  3. Glen & Germishuizen 2010, p. 158
  4. SANBI 2010.
  5. Kamenetsky & Okubo 2012.
  6. SANBI 2015.
  7. Duncan 1988.
  8. Fraser & Fraser 2011.
  9. Anderson 2007, Lachenalia p. 493
  10. Duncan & Edwards 2006.
  11. Duncan & Helme 2014.
  12. Duncan 2002b.
  13. Hartigh 2013.
  14. Huntley 2013.
  15. du Plessis & Duncan 1989.
  16. IBS 2008.
  17. IPNI. List of plant names with authority G.D.Duncan.
  18. International Plant Names Index.  G.D.Duncan.
  19. Hutchinson 2008.

Bibliography


Books and monographs

Articles and websites

Works by Graham Duncan






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