Engkik Soepadmo

Engkik Soepadmo (3 March 1937 ) was an Indonesian botanist and ecologist who worked in Malaysia. His research focused on the tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. He authored numerous publications on the flora of Malesia, and contributed to forest conservation and the establishment of protected areas in Malaysia.

Early life and education Soepadmo was born and raised in Kartosuro, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. His early education was at the Secondary School in Solo. He graduated from high school in 1955, and attended the College of Biology in Bogor, graduating in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in Taxonomic Botany. He served for a time as a junior botanist at the Herbarium Bogoriense before attending the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in July 1966. For the following two years he had a research fellowship from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Dr. Soepadmo conducted research, authored papers, and led research expeditions which helped establish or create conservation strategies for various protected areas in Malaysia, including Endau-Rompin National Park, Royal Belum State Park, Bukit Tawai Protection Forest Reserve, Lanjak-Entimau/Betung Kerihun Transboundary Conservation Area, and Pulong Tau National Park.

Plants named in recognition of Dr. Soepadmo include: †Soepadmoa , a ~90–94 million year old extinct fossil genus of Fagaceae.