Species Killickia lutea

For Donald Joseph Boomer Killick (1926–2008), South African botanist and plant collector. He studied at the University of Natal, obtaining a PhD in 1962. He worked for the Botanical Research Institute from 1950, became liaison officer at Kew Gardens (1954–1957) and officer in charge of the Botanical Survey (1963–1966), then in charge of the flora research team. He returned to Kew as liaison officer (1969–1971) and was promoted to assistant director and then director of the Botanical Research Institute in 1973. He became a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1966 and was also president of the Biological Society. He published a number of papers on ecology and taxonomy and authored A Field Guide to the Flora of the Natal Drakensberg (1990). He is credited with having collected some 5 000 specimens, mainly in the Drakensberg mountains.