Sheila Spenser Hooper

Sheila Spenser Hooper (1925 – 3 May 2022) was a British botanist and plant collector noted for traveling to gather plants from around the world, including India, Tanzania, and Kenya. She was a specialist on Cyperaceae and a curator at Kew Gardens. She described over fifty species . She often published with Kew Bulletin . One of these publications was an illustrated description and discussion of spikelets in Cyperaceae . She collected plant specimens on expeditions with Kanchi Gandhi, Leonard B Mwasumbi, and Clifford Charles Townsend