> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 867](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069109) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12649-1) LSID 12649-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759640) QID Q6759640 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Levyns, Margaret Rutherford Bryan (née Mitchell) (1890-1975), South African botanist; lecturer at the University of Cape Town 1916-1946; first woman president of the Royal Society of South Africa. **Abbreviated name**: *Levyns* \[standard form in IPNI: *Levyns*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BOL|BOL]] (11.731 S. African specimens, collected between 1922 and 1970). The collection from Australia is also at [[Collection BOL|BOL]]. Important sets of duplicates are at [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection PRE|PRE]]. *Ref*.: Rourke, J., in M.R.B. Levyns, Insnar'd with flow'rs. Cape Town 1977, p. 199-200. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 68; Barnhart 2: 375; BL 1: 29, 305; Bossert p. 236; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Levyns"); IH 2: 438; Kew 3: 426; Roon p. 68. - Anon., Cape Times 15 Nov, p. 8, 1975 (fide Kew Record); Forum bot. 13(12): 81. 1975; Veld & Flora 61(3): 7. 1975; S. Afr. Forum bot. 3(5): I. 1965 (honorary life member of Bot. Soc. S. Afr.). - Cowan, R. S., Taxon 25: 280. 1976. - Diels, L., Bot. Jahrb. 65(Lit.): 16. 1932 (review of her publ. on Lobostemon, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 49: 393-451 1934). - Du Plessis, E., S. Afr. Forum bot. 5(6): 2. 1967 (on Mrs. L's contribution of over 500 articles to the Standard Encyclopaedia of South Africa). - Levyns, M. R. B., A botanist's memoirs. Univ. Cape Town 1968, 40 p. (portr.); Insnar'd with flow'rs, the memoirs of a great South African botanist. Edited by J. E. P. Levvns, foreword by John Rourke, Botanical Society of S. Africa, National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch Claremont, C.P., 7700, South Africa, xvii, 1, 206 p., 1977 (autobiogr., portr., bibl.) (see also Taxon 27(1): 112. 1978). #### Composite works Co-editor of *The flora of the Cape Peninsula*, Cape Town (Juta & Co. Ltd.) 1950: see Rourke in Levyns (1977) for a list of contributions. ### Publications ##### n.4474. A guide to the flora of the Cape Peninsula **Title** *A guide to the flora of the Cape Peninsula*... Cape Town, Johannesburg (Juta & Co., Ltd.) \[1929\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Guide fl. Cape*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug-Dec 1929 (p. vii: Mai 1929: J. Bot. Mai 1930), p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-284, *3* col. *pl. Copies*: U, US, USDA. – Illustrations by Miss. E. McCullough and the author. *Ed. 2*: 1966, xvii, 310 p., Cape Town (Juta & Co., Ltd.), see review by Leistner, Taxon 16: 140-141. 1967. *Ref*.: Rendle, A. B., J. Bot. 68: 92-93. 1930 (not yet publ. by Jul 1929).