Abstract:
The Bolus Herbarium algal collection is the most comprehensive collection in
South Africa. Though housing collections from the whole of the South African
coastline and also from Namibia, the Western Cape and Eastern Cape floras are
particularly well represented. There is also a reasonable collection of foreign
material form various parts of the world. The latter do not form
... part of the
database material.
Important collections are those of: Becker (Eastern Cape), Stegenga, Bolton and
Anderson, Simons (Western - and Eastern Cape and less importantly
Kwazulu-Natal), Engledow (Namibia). Less important collectors are: Tyson,
Isaac, Coppejans and SAN PAD (South African Netherlands Programme for Advance
and Development).
This collection currently consists of 9665 records of 72 families. 
