Sheila Spenser Hooper (1925 – 3 May 2022) was a British botanist and plant collector noted for traveling to gather plants from around the world, including India, Tanzania, and Kenya. She was a specialist on Cyperaceae and a curator at Kew Gardens. She described over fifty species. The standard author abbreviation S. S. Hooper is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Hooper later lived in Surbiton. She died on 3 May 2022.
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1925
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3 May 2022 (aged 96)
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