Anthea Phillipps
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Datin Anthea Phillipps B.Sc. (born 3 June 1955)[citation needed] is a British botanist based in Sabah, Malaysia, specialising in pitcher plants and rhododendrons.
Phillipps received a Botany degree from the University of Durham, England.[1] She then worked at the Sabah Museum before joining the Sabah Parks service from 1980 to 1987 as Park Ecologist,[2][3] where she studied rhododendrons and pitcher plants.
Phillipps helped to establish the Herbarium and the Botanical Garden at Kinabalu Park.[4] She collected samples of Hornstedtia reticulata, now housed at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[5] She also supported the creation of a botanical section of the Sabah Museum.[6]
Publications authored or coauthored by Phillipps include:
- A Guide to the Parks of Sabah (1988)
- Rhododendrons of Sabah (1988) (with A. Lamb, George Argent & Sheila Collenette)
- Pitcher-Plants of Borneo (1996) (with Anthony Lamb and Chien Lee)[7]
- Kinabalu - Summit of Borneo (1996) (with K.M. Wong)
- Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (2000) (with Francis Liew)
- The Rhododendrons of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (2007) (with G. Argent & A. Lamb)[8]
