Fairlie Estelle Caroline Gascoyne-Cecil
Born
Fairlie Estelle Caroline Watson

(1888-12-18)18 December 1888
Died24 June 1980(1980-06-24) (aged 91)
Other namesStella Gascoyne-Cecil
Known forplant collector

Fairlie Estelle Caroline Gascoyne-Cecil (18 December 1888 – 24 June 1980) was a plant collector and member of a British army family.

She was the elder daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Watson of the Suffolk Regiment and Fairlie Anderson. She was born in Shimla in India on 18 December 1888. She married Victor Alexander Gascoyne-Cecil on 25 November 1915. They had two sons, Rupert Arthur Victor Gascoyne-Cecil (1917– 2004) and Anthony Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1921–1998).[1] She died in East Hanningfield.

She collected plant specimens in Peru including Selaginella haematodes on the banks of the river Penené and the type specimen of the fern Adiantum ceciliae (now Adiantum urophyllum)[2][3] that are now in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London that was later described by A. H Alston.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Burke's Peerage, volume 3 (2003), p. 3505
  2. ↑ Hill, David. "Flora of Peru". Twitter.
  3. ↑ "Adiantum urophyllum Hook". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  4. ↑ Alston, A H (1960). "Some new species of ferns from South America". Lilloa. 30: 107–112.
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