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Olive Mary Hilliard (née Hillary) (4 July 1925 Durban) is a noted South African botanist and taxonomist. Hilliard attended Natal University in the years 1943-47 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. In 1964 she formed a professional and personal collaboration with Brian Laurence Burtt (1913-2008) who played a large part in the revitalising of a moribund Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Their collaboration resulted in numerous papers and three books, ''Streptocarpus: an African Plant Study'' (1971), ''The Botany of the Southern Natal Drakensberg'' (1987), and ''Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa'' (1991). 〔(Burtt obituary - Botanical Electronic News )〕〔(The Independent obituary )〕 Her collected specimens, mostly from the Natal Drakensberg and Malawi, number some 8 000 (of which 5 000 were collected with B. L. Burtt). She is commemorated in ''Plectranthus hilliardiae'' Codd, ''Schizoglossum hilliardiae'' Kupicha, ''Cymbopappus hilliardiae'' B.Nord., ''Agalmyla hilliardiae'' D.J.Middleton & S.M.Scott and ''Helichrysum hilliardiae'' Wild. ==Works== * Hilliard, OM, BL Burtt 1971. ''Streptocarpus: an African Plant Study'' * Hilliard, OM. 1983. ''Flora of Southern Africa Series''. Ed. Balogh Scientific Books. 325 pp. ISBN 0-621-07943-X * Hilliard, OM, BL Burtt 1985. ''A Revision of Geranium in Africa south of the Limpopo''. (Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. (Vol. XLII no. 2) ) * Hilliard, OM. 1987. ''The Botany of the Southern Natal Drakensberg'' (Annals of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens) Ed. National Botanic Gardens. 253 pp. ISBN 0-620-10625-5 * Hilliard, OM, BL Burtt 1991. ''Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa''. Ed. Timber Press, Inc. 152 pp. ISBN 1-874802-01-7 * Hilliard, OM. 1995. ''The Manuleae: A Tribe of Scrophulariaceae''. Ed. Edinburgh University Press. 600 pp. ISBN 0-7486-0489-8 * Hilliard, OM, LS Davis (illustrator). 1997. ''Trees & Shrubs of Natal (Ukhahlamba)''. Ed. Univ. of Kwazulu Natal Press; 2ª ed. 48 pp. ISBN 0-86980-882-6 * Hilliard, OM. 1997. ''Flowers of the Natal Drakensberg: The Lily, Iris And Orchid Family And Their Allies (Ukhahlamba S.)'' Ed. Univ. of Kwazulu Natal Press. 85 pp. ISBN 0-86980-702-1 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olive Mary Hilliard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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