Lilian Gibbs

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

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