Terence Macleane Salter

Terence Macleane Salter (5 February 1883 – 30 March 1969) was a British/South African plant collector and botanist.

Among the plant taxa named in his honor are the genus Saltera (Penaeaceae) and the orchid Disa salteri.

[1][2] He was stationed at Naval Base Simon's Town, South Africa, from 1927 until his retirement in 1931 at the rank of Paymaster Commander.

[3] He worked with Robert Stephen Adamson, with whom he published the Flora of the Cape Peninsula in 1950.

He was employed at the Bolus Herbarium until 1960, during which time he became a specialist on the Cape flora, in particular the genus Oxalis.