Bertha Marion (née Sherwood) Lahman (1872–1954) was an

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botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

specializing in

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. Lahman is credited with the cataloging of at least thirteen different species of cacti. Her work is recognized in the journal of the

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in all issues following 1932.

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