Soejatmi Dransfield

Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939) is an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and currently honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.

In 1975, she got her PhD in biology from the University of Reading in the UK, her thesis entitled Revision of Cymbopogon (Gramineae).

[2][4] Her appointment as an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Garden was a recognition of her work on the bamboos.

They presented their research on bamboos at the Plant Resources of South East Asia meeting in Jakarta.

In 1993 and 1994, Dransfield collected specimens of Schizostachyum and Dinochloa from Luzon in Philippines which she used to study, revise and publish articles.