Species Hilliardia zuurbergensis

For Olive Mary Hilliard (1925– ), South African botanist and plant collector. She obtained a PhD from Natal University and worked at the National Herbarium, Pretoria (1947–1948), as a lecturer of botany at Natal University, Pietermaritzburg (1954–1962), and as curator and research fellow at the Natal University Herbarium from 1963. She authored, inter alia, Streptocarpus: An African Plant Study (1971), The Botany of the Southern Natal Drakensberg (1987), and Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa (1991) with Brian Lawrence Burt (1913–2008), and collected some 8 000 specimens, some 5 000 with Burt, mostly from the Natal Drakensberg and Malawi. Her special interest was the taxonomy of Streptocarpus, the Compositae and Scrophulariaceae.