Soejatmi Dransfield

Dransfield's efforts resulted in the identification and description of forty two erect bamboo species. In 1993 and 1994, Dransfield collected specimens of Schizostachyum and Dinochloa from Luzon in Philippines which she used to study, revise and publish articles. This was a three-year project on bamboos “Field guide for the identification of erect bamboos grown in the Philippines and helped collect materials for taxonomy and updated nomenclature.

Dransfield began her career as a staff member of Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor in Indonesia. After completing her PhD, she went back to working at Bogor and continued working on bamboos. She moved to the UK in 1978 to continue her research on bamboo taxonomy including the generic delimitation of the Old World tropical bamboos. She writes on the account of bamboos from Malaysia, Thailand and Madagascar.

Dransfield got her first degree in Plant Taxonomy from the Academy of Agriculture, Ciawi, Bogor in Indonesia. In 1975, she got her PhD in biology from the University of Reading in the UK, her thesis entitled Revision of Cymbopogon (Gramineae).

Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939) is an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and currently honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.

Soejatmi Soenarko was born in Nganjuk, Indonesia in 1939.