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Lillian Louisa Britten

Lillian Louisa Britten (1886-1952) was a South African botanist considered the leading expert of Eastern Cape flora in her time. Britten studied at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown as a student of Selmar Schonland, and after studying in the UK, returned in 1918 to Grahamstown to be a lecturer in botany at the Rhodes University College. The standard author abbreviation L.L.Britten is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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  • 1886 births
  • 1952 deaths
  • 20th-century South African botanists
  • 20th-century South African women scientists
  • Botanist stubs
  • Rhodes University alumni
  • South African expatriates in the United Kingdom
  • South African scientist stubs
  • South African women botanists