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Rose Monteiro (née Bassett) (1 May 1840 – 11 February 1898) was a late-19th-century plant collector and naturalist who spent several years in Lourenço Marques on Delagoa Bay, Mozambique.
Monteiro was born in London. She married Joachim John Monteiro, a British mining engineer and naturalist.[1] They spent several years in Angola where he husband worked as a mining engineer and naturalist. Then in 1876 they relocated to Lourenco Marques where her husband worked as a labor recruitment agent for the Cape Colony until his untimely death in 1878.
Monteiro published 'Delagoa Bay: its natives and natural history' in 1891, where she describes the wide range of flora from the region. One species she describes was a succulent of the aloe family, with very thick mottled leaves and heads of pale pink flowers.[2] Monteiro sent samples to Kew Gardens in 1886, where it was cultivated and flowered in 1889. This species was then names after her, Aloe Monteiroæ.[3]
Monteiro also collected butterflies which she shared with other collectors, many of which were featured in the book 'South-African butterflies'.[4] She also contributed scientific illustrations of butterflies to the book 'Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies'.[5]