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Halijah Ibrahim is a Malaysian botanist. [1]
Ibrahim was awarded her doctorate by the University of Newcastle, UK in 1979. She is a professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Malaya. She specialises in medicinal chemistry of Malaysian plants with particular interest in Zingiberaceae. [2] [3]
Ibrahim has also characterised and named at least 8 species of plant. [4] These include Boesenbergia latongensis (Meekiong, Ipor & Ibrahim). [5]
Ibrahim is the author or co-author of over 30 scientific publications including:
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