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