Lillian Louisa Britten (1886-1952) was a South African botanist considered the leading expert of Eastern Cape flora in her time.[1][2][3][4] Britten studied at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown as a student of Selmar Schonland, and after studying in the UK, returned in 1918 to Grahamstown to be a lecturer in botany at the Rhodes University College.[5] The standard author abbreviation L.L.Britten is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
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- ^ "Britten, Lillian Louisa on JSTOR". Retrieved 17 September 2018.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Britten, Miss Lilian Louisa (botany)". www.s2a3.org.za. S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
Britten had an excellent knowledge of the flora of the Eastern Cape and was an avid collector, with over 7000 specimens to her credit.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9781135963439. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
She collected extensively and her plant collections are in a number of museums in South Africa, but she published little. She was highly knowledgeable about Eastern Cape flora.
- ^ E. Figueiredo; G.F. Smith (31 December 2021). "Women in the first three centuries of formal botany in southern Africa". Blumea. 66 (3): 275–307. doi:10.3767/BLUMEA.2021.66.03.10. ISSN 0006-5196. Wikidata Q112627895.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. L.L.Britten.
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