Olive Mary Hilliard

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Olive Mary Hilliard (nee Hillary) (born July 4, 1925 in Durban , South Africa ) is a South African botanist and taxonomist . Hilliard described 372 terrestrial plant species, the fifth highest number of first descriptions ever written by a scientist . Your botanical author abbreviation is " Hilliard ".

Life

Hilliard attended Natal University in 1943-1947, where she received a Master of Science and later a PhD.

She worked at the National Herbarium in Pretoria from 1947 to 1948 and was a lecturer in botany at Natal University from 1954 to 1962 . In 1963 she became curator of the herbarium and research assistant at Natal University in Pietermaritzburg . Her particular areas of interest are the flora in Natal and the taxonomy of Streptocarpus , Compositae and Scrophulariaceae .

In 1964 there was a professional and personal collaboration with Brian Laurence Burtt (1913-2008), who was instrumental in the revitalization of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden . Their collaboration resulted in numerous articles and three books, Streptocarpus: an African Plant Study (1971), The Botany of the Southern Natal Drakensberg (1987), and Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa. (1991).

Her collected plants, mainly from the Natal Drakensberg and from Malawi , comprise about 8000 specimens (5000 of them by Brian Laurence Burtt).

It is found in Plectranthus hilliardiae Codd , Schizoglossum hilliardiae Kupicha , Cymbopappus hilliardiae B. Nord. , Agalmyla hilliardiae D. J. Middleton & SM Scott and Helichrysum hilliardiae Wild thought.

Works (selection)

  • Olive Mary Hilliard, Brian Laurence Burtt: Streptocarpus: an African Plant Study. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 1971. 410 pages.
  • Olive Mary Hilliard: Flora of Southern Africa . Flowering plants volumes, Vol. 33, Pt. 7, Fasc. 2, Gnaphaliinae, Pt. 1. Balogh Scientific Books, Pretoria 1983. 325 pages. ISBN 0-621-07943-X
  • Olive Mary Hilliard, Brian Laurence Burtt: A Revision of Geranium in Africa south of the Limpopo . In: Notes - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Vol. XLII (1985) no. 2. ISSN 0080-4274
  • Olive Mary Hilliard, LS Davis (Illustrator): Trees and Shrubs of Natal . Ukhahlamba series no.1, University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 1985, 40 pages. ISBN 0-8698-0470-7
  • Olive Mary Hilliard: The Botany of the Southern Natal Drakensberg . Annals of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens , Vol. 15. National Botanic Gardens, Cape Town 1987. 253 pages. ISSN 0258-3305
  • Olive Mary Hilliard, Linda. S. Davis: Flowers of the Natal Drakensberg: the lily, iris, and orchid families and their allies . Ukhahlamba series no.4, University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 1990, 85 pages. ISBN 0-8698-0702-1
  • Olive Mary Hilliard, Brian Laurence Burtt: Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa . Acorn Books, London, Johannesburg 1991. 152 pages. ISBN 1-8748-0201-7
  • Olive Mary Hilliard: The Manuleae: A Tribe of Scrophulariaceae . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1995. 600 pages. ISBN 0-7486-0489-8
  • Olive Mary Hilliard: Grasses, sedges, restiads and rushes of the Natal Drakensberg . University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 1996. 69 pages. ISBN 0-86980-928-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hilliard, Olive Mary (1926-). In: International Plant Names Index . Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Botanical Electronic News - 396. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ BL Burtt: Plant taxonomist. June 13, 2008, accessed November 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ JISC: bibliographic evidence . (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hilliard, Olive Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilliard, Olive Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African botanist and taxonomist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban