Edith Layard Stephens

Edith Layard Stephens
Born(1884-12-06)6 December 1884
Cape Town, Cape Colony
Died2 March 1966(1966-03-02) (aged 81)
Cape Town, South Africa
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Cape Town

Edith Layard Stephens (1884-1966) was a South African botanist, a leading authority on algae and fungi, particularly edible and poisonous mushrooms.[1][2]

  1. ^ Brown, A. C. (1977). A History of Scientific Endeavour in South Africa: A Collection of Essays Published on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Royal Society of South Africa. Royal Society of South Africa. p. 249.
  2. ^ Creese, Mary R.S.; Creese, Thomas M. (2010). Ladies in the laboratory III South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 18–22. ISBN 9780810872899.