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John Patrick Rourke

{{short description|(b.1942) South African botanist}}

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John Patrick Rourke FMLS (born 26 March 1942, in Cape Town) is a South African botanist, who worked at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and became curator of the Compton Herbarium. He is a specialist in the flora of the Cape Floristic Region, in particular the family Proteaceae.

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Career

Rourke studied at the University of Cape Town from 1960 to 1970, where he obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. He started working at Kirstenbosch from 1966, and succeeded Winsome Fanny Barker as curator of the Compton Herbarium in 1972. He published several revisions of Proteacean genera including Leucadendron, Leucospermum, Mimetes, Vexatorella, Sorocephalus and Spatalla.

During his career he collected approximately 2000 specimens of flora from the southwestern and southern Cape, Namaqualand and eastern Transvaal.

In 1997 he was made foreign member of the Linnean Society of London. In 2003 Rourke was awarded the "Gold medal for Lifetime Preservation of the Environment" by The Cape Tercentenary Foundation.

Eponyms

Several plant species were named in his honour including:

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Selected publications

  • 1997 Rourke, J.P. Wild Flowers of South Africa, Struik Publishers, {{ISBN|978-1-86825-897-0}}
  • 1982 Rourke, J.P.; Anderson, F.; Ripley, L. The Proteas of Southern Africa, Centaur Press, {{ISBN|978-0-908379-10-1}}
  • 1972. Taxonomic Studies on Leucospermum R.Br.: J. of South African Botany 8: Additional Vol. 194 pp.
  • 1969. Taxonomic Studies on Sorocephalus R.Br.: J. of South African Botany 7: Additional Vol. 124 pp.

References

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{{cite web | title=Archives | website=Cape Tercentenary Foundation | url=http://www.cape300foundation.org.za/archives-awards.htm | accessdate=10 July 2019}}

{{cite book|first1= Mary|last1= Gunn|first2= L.E.W.|last2= Codd|title= Botanical Exploration Southern Africa|series= Flora of Southern Africa|year=1975|page= 302|publisher= CRC Press|isbn= 0869611291|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mkfdQ3l1YQUC&pg=PA302|accessdate=10 July 2019|language=English}}

{{cite journal | journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) | volume=1 | issue=4 | issn=0024-4066 | doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.1969.tb00125a.x | pages=i–xxxi| title=Record of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London for the Session 1967-68 | year=1969 }}{{subscription required}}

{{cite web|first=Héloïse | last= Van Dievoet |website= sieplex|title= John Patrick Rourke|url= http://sieplex.com/article/john-patrick-rourke|date=1 July 2016|accessdate=10 July 2019|language=Dutch}}

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External links

  • [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.k36456 John Patrick Rourke] on JSTOR
  • [https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/John-Patrick-Rourke/49052542 John Patrick Rourke] on Semantic Scholar

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Category:1942 births

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century South African botanists

Category:21st-century South African botanists

Category:South African curators