Pauline Lesley Perry (born 13 August 1927, London) is a South African botanist, horticulturalist and plant collector.
[1] Pauline Lesley Perry studied at Wye College, University of London in 1946–1949, graduating Bachelor of Sciences, and then taught biology in the United Kingdom before coming to South Africa in 1972.
[2] From 1976 Perry worked with the National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, stationed at the Karoo Botanic Granden, Worcester, specializing in geophytes from the winter rainfall region of the Cape, especially Namaqualand.
[2] After retirement, she continued publishing scientific articles and books, such as A vegetation survey of the Karoo National Botanic Garden Reserve, Worcester (1990),[6] Growing Geophytes at the Karoo Gardens (1991),[7] A revision of the genus Eriospermum (Eriospermaceae) (1994),[8] and Bulbinella in South Africa (1999) based on the part of a M.Sc.
thesis submitted to the Botany Department of the University of Cape Town.