Ximena Londoño de la Pava (born 1958 in Cali, Colombia) is a Colombian botanist, specializing in agrostology.
She has collected plant specimens in Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
In Colombia's Quindío Department, she owns and manages an organic farm, growing coffee, bamboo, bananas, and tropical flowers.
She told an interviewer that at the farm, “todo se resuelve con una guadua: si había que apuntalar un techo, coger una fruta, fabricar un banco, arreglar uno mesa” (everything is solved with a guadua: if you had to prop up a roof, pick a fruit, make a bench, fix a table).
[1]In the bamboo subfamily of the family Poaceae, Londoño has described over 50 new species spanning several different genera, including Guadua, Alvimia, Arthrostylidium, Aulonemia, Chusquea, Eremocaulon, and Rhipidocladum.