User:HenryCrun15/Dorothy Cooper (botanist)

Dorothy "Dot" Cooper is a botanist from New Zealand, known for her work with orchids.

Personal life
Cooper was born in 1941. She is also known as Dot Cooper and as Dorothy A Cooper.

Career and works
Cooper published Field Guide to New Zealand Native Orchids in 1981. She also established the New Zealand Native Orchid Group.

The orchid Gastrodia cooperae is named after her. She is also credited with the identification of Pterostylis cardiostigma.

Samples of her work are held by New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa.