Rose Monteiro
Rose Monteiro (née Bassett) (1 May 1840 – 11 February 1898) was a late-19th-century plant collector and naturalist who spent several years in Lourenço Marques on Delagoa Bay, Mozambique.
Rose Monteiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1840  |
| Died | 11 February 1898 (aged 57–58) |
| Occupation | Naturalist, botanical collector, writer, scientific illustrator, botanist |
| Spouse(s) | Joachim John Monteiro |
Monteiro was born in London. She married Joachim John Monteiro, a British mining engineer and naturalist.[1] They spent several years in Angola where he husband worked as a mining engineer and naturalist. Then in 1876 they relocated to Lourenco Marques where her husband worked as a labor recruitment agent for the Cape Colony until his untimely death in 1878.
Monteiro published 'Delagoa Bay: its natives and natural history' in 1891, where she describes the wide range of flora from the region. One species she describes was a succulent of the aloe family, with very thick mottled leaves and heads of pale pink flowers.[2] Monteiro sent samples to Kew Gardens in 1886, where it was cultivated and flowered in 1889. This species was then names after her, Aloe Monteiroæ.[3]
Monteiro also collected butterflies which she shared with other collectors, many of which were featured in the book 'South-African butterflies'.[4] She also contributed scientific illustrations of butterflies to the book 'Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies'.[5]
References
- "Monteiro, Mrs Rose". www.s2a3.org.za. 23 April 2020. Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- Crouch, Neil R.; Smith, Gideon F.; Klopper, Ronell R.; Figueiredo, Estrela; McMurtry, Douglas; Burns, Shane (20 October 2015). "Winter-flowering maculate aloes from the Lowveld of southeastern Africa: Notes on Baker (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae), the earliest name for Schönland". Bradleya. 33 (33): 147–155. doi:10.25223/brad.n33.2015.a20. S2CID 90436404.
- Klopper, Ronell R.; Crouch, Neil R.; Smith, Gideon F. (31 December 2015). "(2399) Proposal to conserve the name against ( : )". Taxon. 64 (6): 1320. doi:10.12705/646.21.
- Trimen, Roland (1887–1889). South-African butterflies ; a monograph of the extra-tropical species. London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Smith, H. Grose; Kirby, W. F. (1887). Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies. Vol. 1. London: Gurney & Jackson.