Career
She worked at the Bolus Herbarium, the oldest functioning herbarium in South Africa established in 1856, and was described as "the most outstanding collector ever of South African flora", amassing 36,000 herbarium specimens. She concentrated on collecting from the high altitude areas of the Cape as she was also a capable mountaineer. lieutenant is estimated that she discovered about 150 Taxa and there are about 34 species and 2 genera named after her.
She was awarded an honorary Masters of Science Degree by the University of Cape Town in 1989.