Anthea Phillipps B.Sc. (born June 3, 1956) is a British botanist. Phillipps was brought up in Sabah

Sabah

Sabah is one of 13 member states of Malaysia. It is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in the country after Sarawak, which it borders on its southwest. It also shares a border with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south...

, Borneo

Borneo

Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

 as a child (and still dwells there today). She received a Botany degree from the University of Durham, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. She worked at the Sabah Museum

Sabah Museum

The Sabah Museum is the state Museum of Sabah, Malaysia. It is sited on 17 ha of land at Bukit Istana Lama in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital. The complex contains not only the museum proper, but also an ethnobotanic garden, a zoo and a heritage village. The main building also houses the Sabah...

 before joining the Sabah Parks

Sabah Parks

Sabah Parks is a conservation-based statutory body established in 1962 with the purpose of conserving the scenic, scientific and historic heritage of the state of Sabah, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. The organisation is also responsible for the management and promotion of the various protected...

 service from 1980 to 1987 as Park Ecologist, where she studied rhododendron

Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...

s and pitcher plant

Pitcher plant

Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over...

s. She lives in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, and is married to Anthony Lamb

Anthony Lamb

Anthony L. Lamb M.A., Dip. Ag., D.T.A. is a British botanist, born in Sri Lanka, and specialising in the flora of Borneo. Lamb was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at St John's College at Cambridge...

 (with two children, Serena and Alexander Lamb).

Publications authored or coauthored by Phillipps include:

• A Guide to the Parks of Sabah (1988)
• Rhododendrons of Sabah (1988) (with A. Lamb, G. Argent & S. Collenette)
• Pitcher-Plants of Borneo
  Pitcher-Plants of Borneo
  Pitcher-Plants of Borneo is a monograph by Anthea Phillipps and Anthony Lamb on the tropical pitcher plants of Borneo. It was first published in 1996 by Natural History Publications , in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Malaysian Nature Society...
  
  (1996) (with Anthony Lamb)
• Kinabalu - Summit of Borneo (1996) (with K.M. Wong)
• Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (2000) (with Francis Liew)
• The Rhododendrons of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (2007) (with G. Argent & A. Lamb)