Rose Monteiro (née Bassett) (1 May 1840 – 11 February 1898) was a late-19th-century plant collector and naturalist who spent several years in Lourenço Marques on Delagoa Bay, Mozambique.

[1] They spent several years in Angola where he husband worked as a mining engineer and naturalist.

Then in 1876 they relocated to Lourenco Marques where her husband worked as a labor recruitment agent for the Cape Colony until his untimely death in 1878.

Monteiro published 'Delagoa Bay: its natives and natural history' in 1891, where she describes the wide range of flora from the region.

One species she describes was a succulent of the aloe family, with very thick mottled leaves and heads of pale pink flowers.