Grant Recipients
SAplants, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 | Mimetes fimbriifolius
2025
Mpendulo Gabayi
Propagation of critically endangered Brackenridgea zanguebarica (Yellow Peeling Plane)
Dr Isabel Johnson
Taxonomy of gerbera daisies
Khahliso Lefatsa of the Myezo Sustainable Development Alliance
Community-based fynbos conservation nursery
Arni le Roux
Floristic assessment of the Low Free State–KwaZulu-Natal Escarpment
Delia Oosthuizen
Taxonomy of gerbera daisies
Dr Deborah Robertson-Andersson
Conservation of Kei Mouth mangroves
Dr Hester Steyn
Taxonomic revision of the Cyphia digitata complex
Katherine Venter
Do farmed honeybees pose a threat to wild pollinators?
Pieter Winter
Taxonomic revision of Heliophila
2024
Tallulah Glasby
Studying Biocrusts for Conservation
Victoria Roetger
Plant-pollinator interactions in the Drakensberg
Willem Froneman
Barleria in South Africa
The Complete Guide to Indigenous Garden Plants of South Africa
Book by Elsa Pooley, Geoff Nichols and Andrew Hankey
Prof Craig Peter
Importance of butterflies in pollinating nectar plants
Pieter Bester
Taxonomic revision of the genus Nemesia
Hillcrest Conservancy
Educational signage to raise awareness of the importance of wetlands, grasslands and the associated natural flora
2023
Liam Taylor
Do baobabs matter?
Saness Moodley
Pollination ecology and mountain grassland
Willem Froneman
Barleria in South Africa
Ingcungcu Sunbird
Planting indigenous gardens to create a sunbird migration corridor
2022
Verona Govender
Pollinators in selected grass aloes
Liam Taylor
Pollination ecology and mountain grassland
Willem Froneman
Barleria in South Africa
Dr Wynston Woodenberg
Revision of Portulaca in southern Africa
Princess Vlei Forum
Restoration and rehabilitation project
2021
Katharine Khoury
Insect adaptation as drivers of variation in flower morphology (Gladiolus carneus)
Dr Marianne le Roux
Systematics of the genus Argyrolobium
Jessica Minnaar
Galtonia: Speciation and genetic diversity
Dr Ethan Newman
Pollinator loss &
fragmented landscape (SA Amaryllidaceae as model system)
2020
Note that no grants were issued in 2020 due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
2019
Kaylee van den Bosch
Warburgia salutaris (Pepper-bark Tree) in the Kruger National Park
Jessica Minnaar
Reproductive ecology of Aloe reitzii
Arnold Frisby
Reintroducing Aloe peglerae
Stefan Siebert
Translocation of Frithia humilis
Hester Steyn
Taxonomic revision of Cyphia
Marinda Koekemoer
Taxonomic studies in Senecio (Asteraceae)
Selvan Pillay
Restoration of Wahroonga
Robbie Thomas
Are grafted Proteaceae seeds viable?
John Ward
Cataloguing Roddy Ward’s annotated photographic records
2018
Field Guide to succulent Euphorbias of southern Africa
Book by Rolf Becker and Alma Mӧller
Carolina Diller
Population genetics of the of the Hilton Daisy, Gerbera aurantiaca
Martina Treurnicht (awarded in memory of Stephen Cousins)
Restoring endangered Swartland Shale Renosterveld in the Western Cape
Marie Jordaan
Taxonomic revision of part of the genus Olea
2017
Sharon Louw
Effect of fire on the Common Sugarbush Protea caffra
Dr Marinda Koekemoer
Funding for the book: Complete Plant Families of southern Africa
Dr Frances Siebert
Forb species in semi-arid savanna
Dr Jolene Fisher
Mapping diversity in mistbelt forests in KZN
Natasha Visser
Taxonomic study of the grassland species of Thesium
2016
The Roselands Trust
Instilling positive plant-awareness in children
Gracious Mona
Taxonomic study of Memecylon
Dean Phillips
Taxonomic study of Stenoglottis a genus of orchids
Marco Pauw
Orange River vegetation
Stephanie Payne
The role of small mammals in Aloe pollination
Sylvie Kremer-Köhne
Study of the endangered Aloe lettyae
Nadine Schutte and Prof Stefan Siebert
Contamination of soils with heavy metals
Dr Anina Coetzee
The relationship between bird behaviour and the evolution of flower colour in Ericas
2015
Sylvie Kremer-Köhne
Study of the endangered Aloe lettyae
Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names
Book by Hugh Clarke and Michael Charters, and edited by Prof Eugene Moll
Hester Steyn
Fieldwork and taxonomic research to resolve the Acanthopsis hoffmannseggiana complex
The Kloof Conservancy
Education Outreach Project for school children in the Molweni River catchment and Upper Highway area of eThekwini
2014
Clare Archer
Documentation of the knowledge of the Cyperaceae family in southern Africa
Stephen Cousins
Floral diversity of Swartland Shale Renosterveld
Marc du Plessis
Pollination ecology and evolution of South African stapeliads
Dr Marinda Koekemoer
Publication of the book: Complete Plant Families of southern Africa
2013
Kevin Balkwill
Publication of Volumes 2 & 3 of The Flora of the Witwatersrand
Steve Johnson and Benny Bytebier
Publication of a new field guide to South African Orchids
Margaretha le Roux
Research into the genus Pelargonium
Simon Magoswana
Taxonomic study of the genus Inulanthera
Robyn Powell
Research on the genus Conophytum
2012
Robert Taylor
Population density and structure of the African Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in Kruger National Park
Anina Heystek
Flowering patterns of the Proteaceae family in relation to the Cape Sugarbirds which pollinate them
Christopher Cupido
Taxonomic revision of the genus Roella
Gillian Condy
Conserving a collection of Ethel May Dixie (1876-1973) botanical water-colours
Melissa Glen
Taxonomic revision: classification for southern African Asclepiadinae
Rene Glen
Taxonomic revision: aquatic plants of the order Alismatales
2011
Janet Taylor
Population Dynamics of Acacia nilotica within northern KwaZulu-Natal
Stoffel Bester
Research in the Apocynaceae (Milkweed family)
Christien Bredenkamp
Publication in progress, Flora of the Eastern Cape
Hester Steyn
Research into the genus Acanthopsis
2010
Dr Marinda Koekemoer
Publication of a book entitled Plant families of southern Africa
Anne Johannsmeier
Research project: A monograph and phylogeny of Dipcadi (Hyacinthaceae) in southern Africa
Janine Victor
Taxonomic problems in plants of conservation importance
2009
SANBI, National Botanical Gardens, Pietermaritzburg
Garden based environmental education programme for previously disadvantaged schools
Sindisiwe Zama
The impact of biological control on the well known weed Chromolaena odorata
Zukiswa Shoba
Study of a biological agent to control Parthenium hysterophorus
Anne Johanssmeier
Taxonomic studies of the indigenous bulbs in the genus Dipcadi
Flora and Fauna Trust
Publication of the new Pooley’s Trees of eastern South Africa