User:HenryCrun15/Dorothy Cooper (botanist)
 | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Dorothy "Dot" Cooper is a botanist from New Zealand, known for her work with orchids.
Personal life[edit]
Cooper was born in 1941. She is also known as Dot Cooper and as Dorothy A Cooper.[1]
Career and works[edit]
Cooper published Field Guide to New Zealand Native Orchids in 1981.[2] She also established the New Zealand Native Orchid Group.[3]
The orchid Gastrodia cooperae is named after her.[1] She is also credited with the identification of Pterostylis cardiostigma.[4]
Samples of her work are held by New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Gastrodia cooperae | New Zealand Plant Conservation Network". www.nzpcn.org.nz. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ^ Cooper, Dorothy. (1981). A field guide to New Zealand native orchids. Wellington Orchid Society. Wellington, N.Z.: Price Milburn for the Wellington Orchid Society. ISBN 0-7055-0786-6. OCLC 9646691.
- ^ "Critter of The Week". RNZ. 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- ^ "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ^ "Dorothy Cooper". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)