María Teresa Murillo Pulido (15 October 1929 – 26 February 2017) was a Colombian botanist and pteridologist, who was known by many as "the First Lady of Botany in Colombia".

An internationally recognised expert in the field, she expanded the herbarium at the National University of Colombia and was the first woman to be accepted into the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences.

Her father was the entomologist Luis María Murillo Quinche; her mother Isabel Pulido Cárdenas.

[1] From 1971 to 1972 she studied palynology at the Hugo de Vries Laboratory at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Thomas van der Hammen.

[1] Murillo was the first woman to be accepted into the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in 1970, and was known as one of the first researchers to study ferns in Latin America.