Olive Mary Hilliard

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Olive Mary Hilliard

Biology

#2773

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#4356

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Botany

#97

World Rank

#513

Historical Rank

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Olive Mary Hilliard's Degrees

PhD Botany University of Cape Town
Masters Botany University of Cape Town
Bachelors Botany University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Olive Mary Hilliard was a South African botanist and taxonomist. Hilliard authored 372 land plant species names, the fifth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist. Hilliard was born in Durban on 4 July 1925. She attended Natal University from 1943 to 1947, where she obtained an MSc and later a PhD. She worked at the National Herbarium in Pretoria in 1947-48 and was a lecturer in botany at Natal University from 1954 to 1962. In 1963 she became curator of the herbarium at Natal University and a research fellow. Her special fields of interest were the flora of Natal and the taxonomy of Streptocarpus, Compositae and Scrophulariaceae.

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Olive Mary Hilliard's Published Works

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Compositae in Natal (1977) (151)
Some generic concepts in Compositae – Gnaphaliinae (1981) (74)
Streptocarpus: an African plant study (1972) (65)
The Botany of the Southern Natal Drankensberg (1988) (53)
The Manuleae: A Tribe of Scrophulariaceae (1994) (42)
Names in Gnaphalium, Xeranthemum and Helichrysum published between 1753 and 1800 (1981) (16)
THE GENUS AGALMYLA ( GESNERIACEAE-CYRTANDROIDEAE ) (2002) (15)
Conium (Umbelliferae) in southern Africa (1985) (15)
A REVISION OF CHIRITA SECT. LIEBIGIA ( GESNERIACEAE ) (2003) (14)
Streptocarpus. An African Plant Study (1973) (13)
A revision of Ifloga in southern Africa, with comments on the northern hemisphere species (1981) (11)
Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa (1991) (10)
Old World Gesneriaceae. IV. Notes on Didymocarpus and Lysionotus (1995) (8)
Pleuroschisma, a new section of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) from Borneo (2003) (7)
Miscellaneous new names and combinations in Scrophulariaceae - Manuleae (1992) (5)
New species in Petalacte (Compositae) and Struthiola (Thymelaeaceae) (1993) (4)
OLD WORLD GESNERIACEAE VII: CYRTANDRA SCHIZOSTYLA, C. VELUTINA AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ALLIES IN BORNEO (2004) (3)
Two new species of Streptocarpus from Southern Africa (1992) (3)
OLD WORLD GESNERIACEAE XII: FURTHER MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES OF CYRTANDRA IN BORNEO (2005) (3)
Bornean species of Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) closely allied to C. chrysea and C. eximia (2004) (3)
A new species of Agalmyla (Gesneriaceae) from Sulawesi (2002) (3)
OLD WORLD GESNERIACEAE X: BORNEAN SPECIES OF CYRTANDRA ALLIED TO C. PHOENICOLASIA (2004) (2)
Gnaphalium (Compositae) in Africa and Madagascar (1981) (2)
revision of Galtonia (Liliaceae) (1988) (2)
New names in Epithema (Gesneriaceae) (1997) (2)
New names and combinations in Jamesbrittenia (Scrophulariaceae - Manuleae) (1992) (2)
New names in Thesium (Santalaceae) from the Flora Zambesiaca area (1991) (1)
A note on Colpoon (Santalaceae) (1994) (1)
Towards a revision of Agalmyla (Gesneriaceae) (1999) (1)
Dierama: a neglected genus of Iridaceae. (1990) (1)
Further new names and combinations in Scrophulariaceae–Manuleae (1991) (1)
529) Proposal to Conserve Petalacte D. Don (1826) against Billya Cassini (1825) (Compositae) (1980) (1)
Flowers of the Natal Drakensberg : the lily, iris, and orchid families and their allies (1990) (0)
Cynoglossum alticola Hilliard & B. L. Burtt (1986) (0)
New names and combinations in Selago. 3. (1997) (0)
Pseudoselago , a new segregate from Selago (1995) (0)
New names in Selago . 4 (1995) (0)
Further new names in Selago (1996) (0)
Cynoglossum austroafricanum Weim. ex Hilliard & B. L. Burtt (1986) (0)
Dierama : the harebells of Africa / text by O.M. Hilliard and B.L. Burtt ; illustrations by Auriol Batten ; foreword by L.E. Codd (1991) (0)

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