Reino Pott née Leendertz (2 January 1869 – 14 June 1965) was a Dutch-born South African botanist and chemist.

She was the first woman to be appointed as a botanist in the civil service of the South African Republic, and greatly expanded the plant collection of the Transvaal Museum.

[1] She later co-authored a list of over 3,000 species of flowering plants and ferns with Joseph Burtt Davy in 1912,[2] expanding it to over 4,000 in 1920.

[4] In the same year she arrived in Pretoria, 1898, Pott was appointed to the post of botanical assistant at the Transvaal Museum, then called the Staatsmuseum, as the first exception to the established rule at the time of employing only men as scientists in the South African Republic.

[3] Pott discovered several new species of flowering plant throughout her career, including several succulents in the genus Stapelia.