Misplaced Pages

Sheila Spenser Hooper (1925 – 3 May 2022) was a British botanist and plant collector noted for traveling to gather plants from around the world, including India, Tanzania, and Kenya. She was a specialist on Cyperaceae and a curator at Kew Gardens. She described over fifty species. The standard author abbreviation S. S. Hooper is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Hooper later lived in Surbiton. She died on 3 May 2022.

References

1. "Hooper, Sheila Spenser (1925-) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
2. Archives, The National. "Hooper, (b 1925) Sheila Spenser, curator at Kew Gardens, specialist on Cyperaceae". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
3. "Tropicos | Person - Hooper, Sheila Spenser". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
4. International Plant Names Index.  S. S. Hooper.
5. "Ralph Hooper obituary". The Times. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
6. "Sheila Spenser Hooper". The Gazette. Retrieved 22 October 2023.

This article about a British botanist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1925 births
• 2022 deaths
• 20th-century British botanists
• 20th-century British women scientists
• British women botanists
• British women curators
• British botanist stubs