Rebeca Acevedo

Rebeca Acevedo San Martín de Vargas (23 January 1902 – 7 December 1987) was a Chilean professor and botanist. In 1947, Acevedo became the first woman to head the botanical department of the Chilean National Museum of Natural History.

Biography Rebeca Acevedo San Martín was born on 23 January 1902 in Retiro, Linares Province.

She obtained bachelor's degrees in biology and chemistry from the University of Chile in 1924. While at college, she also studied at the Chilean National Museum of Natural History, where she made contact with renowned Chilean scientists such as . She continued working in the museum as an assistant to Francisco Fuentes Maturana, who was the head of the botanical department. Acevedo began to specialize in grasses, and continued working as a curator. She was put in charge of organizing the herbarium started by Carlos Muñoz Pizarro. and Placseptalia rebecae by .