> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 669](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333808) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9780-1) LSID 9780-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5111622) QID Q5111622 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Smith, Christo Albertyn (1898-1956), South African botanist; B.Sc. Stellenbosch 1920; high school teacher 1921-1924; with the Division of Botany, Pretoria 1925-1946; stationed at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1928-1931; Dept. of State Information 1946, information officer at Canberra 1954. **Abbreviated name**: *C.A. Sm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.A.Sm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PRE|PRE]] (4600), incl. note books; dupl. [[Collection K|K]], Zambian material at [[Collection MPR|MPR]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 290 (b. 26 Apr 1898); BJI 2: 167; Hortus 3: 1204; Lenley p. 298. #### Biofile - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 1978 (bibl.). - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 325. 1981 (portr., brief biogr. sketch). - White, A. & B.L. Sloane, Stapelieae ed. 2. pref. 85, 535, 809. 1937. #### Note Posthumous publication of main work: *Common names of South African plants*, edited by E. Percy Phillips and Estelle van Hoepen, Botanical Survey of S. Africa, Memoir no. 35. Pretoria 1966 (see Taxon 16: 55-56. 1967), p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-642. *Copy*: FAS.