Soejatmi Dransfield

Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939) is an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and currently honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.

Early life Soejatmi Soenarko was born in Nganjuk, Indonesia in 1939. Together with her husband John Dransfield, she traveled to South East Asia and Madagascar. They presented their research on bamboos at the Plant Resources of South East Asia meeting in Jakarta. and helped collect materials for taxonomy and updated nomenclature.

She married Dr John Dransfield in Malaysia (1977).

Selected publications A New Species and a New Combination of Cyrtochloa Sirochloa, a New Bamboo Genus from Madagascar (Poaceae-Bambusoideae) Cyrtochloa, a New Genus of Bamboo (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from the Philippines Valiha and Cathariostachys, Two New Bamboo Genera (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from Madagascar Notes on Bambusa diffusa (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from Luzon, Philippines

Books The Bamboos of Sabah Plant Resources of South-East Asia: Bamboos. no 7