Wessel Marais

in Botany for the thesis 'A Morphological study of an indigenous species of rice, Oryza barthii A.

From 1953 to 1955 he was director of the Albany Museum Herbarium (GRA) in Grahamstown, where he studied South African Cruciferae for the Flora of Southern Africa.

[8] He carried out collecting trips to the Southwestern Cape Province, Natal, Lesotho, the Transkei, Pondoland, Griqualand East and other localities.

[1] He collected over 1,500 specimens jointly with Van der Schijff in the Kruger National Park and with Bernard de Winter in northern S.W.

He lived in Lasvaux, Cazillac in France where he died, 27 January 2013, in a care home in Martel, Lot.