Florence Mary Paterson

Florence Mary Paterson, née Hallack, also known as Mrs. T.V. Paterson, (15 July, 1869, Port Elizabeth – 5 June, 1936, Redhouse) was a South African plant collector. Her specimens are kept in the herbarium of Albany Museum and the Bolus Herbarium of the University of Cape Town. She is honored in the plant name patersoniae and genus name Neopatersonia. She was the youngest of the nine children in the family. In 1895, Hallack married to Thomas Vernon Paterson of Redhouse. Paterson sent her specimens mainly to the professor of botany at Rhodes University and curator (later director) of the Albany Museum, Selmar Schönland. He also mentioned Paterson's contribution to collecting rare specimens in his letter to Sir David Prain in 1909, and specifically thanked her in Volume 1 of his Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa.

Harry Bolus also thanked Paterson for collecting specimens in his Volume 3 of Orchids of South Africa (1913).