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Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus

South African botanist, botanical collector, and curator and scientific illustrator (1877–1970)

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Lived 1877–1970, aged 93South Africa
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  • Era
    1877–1970
    Aged 93
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-20

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species.

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