Lilian Gibbs

Lilian Gibbs
Born	10 September 1870 London, United Kingdom
Died	30 January 1925 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Nationality	British
Fields	botany
Institutions	British Museum
Known for	Mount Kinabalu

Lilian Suzette Gibbs (1870–1925) was a British botanist who worked for the British Museum in London. She was the first woman and the first botanist to ascend Mount Kinabalu in February 1910. Gibbs collected many plants new to science, several of which are named in her honour (e.g. Racemobambos gibbsiae or Miss Gibbs' Bamboo).

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