Louisa Bolus

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
Born(1877-07-31)31 July 1877
Burgersdorp, Cape Province, South Africa
Died5 April 1970(1970-04-05) (aged 92)
NationalitySouth African
EducationCollegiate Girls High School, Port Elizabeth
Alma materSouth African College (B.A.)
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsBolus Herbarium
Author abbrev. (botany)Kensit
L.Bolus

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit (31 July 1877, Burgersdorp – 5 April 1970, Cape Town) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species.[1]

  1. ^ Lindon et al. 2015, pp. 209–215.