Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 – 12 April 1967) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.
He was the son of Ralph Edwards Phillips and Edith Minnie Crowder. He married Edith Isabel Dawson about 1912 and they had 2 daughters before her death c1948. He secondly married Susan Kriel c1949.[1] Phillips named the genus Susanna belonging to the family Asteraceae after her.[2] He died in Cape Town.
A Contribution to the Knowledge of the South African Proteaceae - 1913
Contributions to the Flora of South Africa - 1913
Descriptions of New Plants from the Gift Berg collected by the Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition - 1913
A list of the Phanerogams and Ferns collected by Mr. P.C. Keytel on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, 1908-1909 - 1913
A note on the Flora of the Great Winterhoek Range (South African Journal of Science) - 1918
A Preliminary List of the Known Poisonous Plants found in South Africa (Botanical Survey of South Africa. Memoir) - 1926
An Introduction to the Study of the South African Grasses: With notes on their structure, distribution, cultivation, etc. (South African agricultural series) - 1931
Life and Living: A story for children - 1933
Civilization and our Biological Past
Herbaria and Botanical Institutions in the United States of America and Canada: In relation to similar institutions in South Africa : report on a visit ... of the Carnegie Corporation of New York - 1935
The Advancement of Science - 1943
The Genera of South African Flowering Plants (Botanical Survey Memoir) - 1951