Halijah Ibrahim

Halijah Ibrahim is a Malaysian botanist.

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.

Ibrahim has also characterised and named at least 8 species of plant. These include ''Boesenbergia latongensis'' (Meekiong, Ipor & Ibrahim).

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