Society for Ethnobotany
AbbreviationSEB
Formation1959 (1959)
PurposeFurthering ethnobotany
Region
Worldwide
Official language
English
President
Heike Vibrans
Main organ
Council
Websitewww.ethnobotany.org
Formerly called
Society for Economic Botany

The Society for Ethnobotany (formerly Society for Economic Botany) is an international learned society covering the fields of ethnobotany and economic botany. It was established in 1959. In 2022 the Society voted to change its name from the Society for Economic Botany to the Society for Ethnobotany, going into effect in June 2023. Its official journal is Economic Botany, published on their behalf by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press.[1] The society also publishes a biannual newsletter, Plants and People.[2] The society organizes annual meetings at different locations around the world, where it awards the prize of Distinguished Ethnobotanist to particularly meritorious individuals.[3][4]

Distinguished Ethnobotanist prize

In 2022 the Society voted to change the name of this award to the Distinguished Ethnobotanist award, going into effect in June 2023. Recent recipients of the Distinguished Economic Botanist prize include:[4]

Past presidents

Past presidents of the society include:[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Economic Botany". Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  2. ↑ "Plants and People". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  3. ↑ "Two botanists recognised as Distinguished Economic Botanists by the Society of Economic Botany". Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  4. 1 2 "Distinguished Ethnobotanists". Society for Ethnobotany. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Society Officers". Society for Ethnobotany. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
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