Edna Pauline Janisch Plumstead, South African palaeobotanist, stratigrapher and coal geologist (Cape Town 15 September 1903 – Johannesburg 23 September 1989)

Authored the first report about fossil fructifications of Glossopteris species being then invited to Geological Society of London (1953)

DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA

Valid Genera

Hirsutum

Jongmansis 1961  

Lanceolatus 1952

Lerouxia 1961

Pluma 1958

Scutum 1952

Vannus 1963

Species

Bifariala intermittens 1958

Euryphyllum antarcticum 1969

Gangamopteris stephensonii 1973

Gladiponum dutoitides

Glossopteris fuchsii 1962

Gonophylloides strictum

Jongmansis transvaalensis 1958

Lanceolatus derouxides 1952

Lanceolatus palaeovittarius

Otozamites antarcticus 1962

Ottokaria buriadica 1956

Ottokaria transvaalensis 1956

Platyphyllum albanense 1967

Pluma longicaulis 1958

Plumsteadia lerouxii

Plumsteadia stricta 1958

Scutum leslium 1952

Scutum thomasii

Vannus gondwanensis 1963

Walikalia juckesii 1975

HONORS (Fossil Plantae)

Plumsteadia Rigby 1963

Plumsteadiella  Le Roux 1966

Plumsteadiostrobus Chandra & Surange 1977