Pauline Kies was a South African botanical illustrator and botanist best known for her works "Flowering Plants of the Southern Cape", and “More Flowering Plants of the Southern Cape” (1995) under the name 'Pauline Bohnen'. She was the daughter of prof. Charles Frederick Kies and Hermine Krige. The standard author abbreviation Kies is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Her collected specimens number some 1000, and were mainly from the south-western Cape, Fauresmith and Pretoria regions.