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John Phillip Harison Acocks

South African botanist (1911-1979)

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Lived 1911–1979, aged 68South Africa
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    1911–1979
    Aged 68
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Updated 2026-07-13

John Phillip Harison Acocks was a South African botanist noted for his publication "Veld Types of South Africa" and his extensive botanical collection of some 28 000 specimens from South Africa and Namibia. In 1938, he was seconded to go on a joint collecting trip of four months with Swedish botanist Adolf Hjalmar Frederick Hafström between Cape Town and Victoria Falls.

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