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| Abbreviation | SEB |
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| Formation | 1959; 65 years ago (1959) |
| Purpose | Furthering ethnobotany |
Region | Worldwide |
Official language | English |
President | Heike Vibrans |
Main organ | Council |
| Website | www |
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 journalisEconomic 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]
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 of the society include:[5]
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