Sheila Spenser Hooper

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. She often published with Kew Bulletin. One of these publications was an illustrated description and discussion of spikelets in Cyperaceae. She collected plant specimens on expeditions with Kanchi Gandhi, Leonard B Mwasumbi, and Clifford Charles Townsend.

Hooper later lived in Surbiton. She died on 3 May 2022.

References

  1. 1 2 "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. ↑ Hooper, Sheila S. (1972). "New Taxa, Names and Combinations in Cyperaceae for the 'Flora of West Tropical Africa'". Kew Bulletin. 26 (3): 577–583. doi:10.2307/4120322. ISSN 0075-5974.
  6. ↑ Hooper, Sheila S. (1984). "Two Montane Forest Species of Carex in Yemen and Northeast Africa: New Distributional Records and a New Variety". Kew Bulletin. 39 (4): 747–751. doi:10.2307/4107740. ISSN 0075-5974.
  7. ↑ Hooper, Sheila S. (1986). "Volkiella (Cyperaceae), a Specialised Cyperoid Genus Re-Examined". Kew Bulletin. 41 (4): 945–948. doi:10.2307/4102990. ISSN 0075-5974.
  8. ↑ Beal, E. O.; Hooper, Sheila S.; Rataj, K. (1980). "Misapplication of the Name Sagittaria longirostra (Micheli) J. G. Smith (Alismataceae) to S. australis (J. G. Smith) Small". Kew Bulletin. 35 (2): 369–371. doi:10.2307/4114584. ISSN 0075-5974.
  9. ↑ Hooper, Sheila S. (1986). "A Concept of the Cyperoid Spikelet and Its Terminology, Illustrated by New Species of Lipocarpha (Cyperaceae)". Kew Bulletin. 41 (2): 423–428. doi:10.2307/4102953. ISSN 0075-5974.
  10. ↑ "Ralph Hooper obituary". The Times. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Sheila Spenser Hooper". The Gazette. Retrieved 22 October 2023.