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
Born1840 Edit this on Wikidata
Died11 February 1898 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 57–58)
OccupationNaturalist, botanical collector, writer, scientific illustrator, botanist Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Joachim John Monteiro Edit this on Wikidata

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]

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  1. ^ "Monteiro, Mrs Rose". www.s2a3.org.za. 23 April 2020. Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Smith, H. Grose; Kirby, W. F. (1887). Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies. Vol. 1. London: Gurney & Jackson.