Matilda Smith
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish botanical illustrator and botanist (1854-1926)
Matilda Smith was a botanical artist whose work appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for over forty years. She became the first artist to depict New Zealand's flora in depth, the first official artist of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the second woman to become an associate of the Linnaean Society. Sm.
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![Corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum by Matilda Smith. Plate from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1891. Smith drew this plant during its first blooming at Kew Gardens in 1889.[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Amorphophallus_titanum_%28Matilda_Smith%29.jpg/1280px-Amorphophallus_titanum_%28Matilda_Smith%29.jpg)
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Matilda Smith was a botanical artist whose work appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for over forty years. She became the first artist to depict New Zealand's flora in depth, the first official artist of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the second woman to become an associate of the Linnaean Society. The standard author abbreviation M.Sm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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