Lillian Louisa Britten

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] The standard author abbreviation L.L.Britten is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References
  1. "Britten, Lillian Louisa (1886-1952)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. "Britten, Lillian Louisa on JSTOR". Retrieved 17 September 2018. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "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.
  4. 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.
  5. IPNI.  L.L.Britten.


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