Eileen Alice Willa

Eileen Alice Willa (1905–1999) was a New Zealand botanical collector, museum curator and writer. the large brown kelp, Durvillaea willana (Broad Bay, 1946) and Crouania willae (Ringaringa, 1960). In 1974 with three others, she co-authored the publication "The Marine Algae of Stewart Island". Her daughter, Ellen, died in 1975, and her husband in 1985, at which point she presented her herbarium of Stewart Island algae to the National Museum, Wellington, and left Stewart Island to live in Invercargill, where she died in 1999." and across some 74 plant families. Her specimens are still contributing to scientific research.