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.

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]

References
  1. Biographical Database of Southern African science entry on Monteiro
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Trimen, Roland (1887–1889). South-African butterflies ; a monograph of the extra-tropical species. London.


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