Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus ( born Kensit, born July 31, 1877 in Burgersdorp, † April 5, 1970 in Cape Town) was a South African botanist. Your official botanical author abbreviation are " L.Bolus " and " Kensit ".

Life and work

After training at the Girls' Collegiate School in Port Elizabeth 1891-1899 Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus studied 1899-1902 literature at the South African College in Cape Town, where she graduated as a Bachelor of Arts. In 1903 she presented the botanist Harry Bolus as a curator in his Privatherbarium one. After the death of Harry Bolus in 1911 the Bolus Herbarium went on to the University of Cape Town. Here Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus worked until her retirement in 1955. 1912 she married Frank bolus, the younger son of Harry Bolus. In the early years of her career operating Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus extensive studies of the Cape flora, where they put a special emphasis on the orchids and Ericaceae. During their collaboration with Harry Bolus they assisted him in his publications on these two plant families. In addition, it was dedicated to the families of the sword lily family and the lunch flower plants. On the latter, she focused mainly from 1955. Besides numerous scientific publications she described the Cape flora in popular science works. These include the magazine South African Gardening and Country Life and the two-volume A Book of South African Flowers. In addition, she studied herbaria outside South Africa, including Kew ( 1909.1910, 1925, 1935), the Thunberg herbarium in Uppsala and the type collection of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in Vienna in 1925.

In 1920 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.

Named after bolus taxa

Gustav Schwantes named the genus Bolusanthemum (now a synonym for Bijlia ) and Peter Goldblatt the Schwertlilienart Moraea louisabolusiae in honor of Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus.

Writings (selection )

  • The Annals of the Bolus Herbarium, 1915
  • Elementary Lessons in Systematic Botany, 1919
  • Notes on Mesembrianthemum and Allied Genera, 1928
  • A First Book of South African Flowers, 1928
  • A Second Book of South African Flowers, 1936
Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes International Plant Names Index
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