Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

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Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902–1985) was an English botanist and classicist. He was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk and attended Cambridge University before taking a position at Kew Gardens. He became an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology.

The standard author abbreviation Airy Shaw is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

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