Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns

Walter Robyns
Born 25 May 1901
Aalst, Belgium
Died 27 December 1986(1986-12-27) (aged 85)
Nationality Belgium
Fields Botany
Institutions National Botanic Garden of Belgium
Author abbrev. (botany) Robyns

Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist. His son, André Robyns (1935–2003), was also a botanist.

Biography

He received his doctorate in sciences at the University of Louvain.[1] Robyns spent two long stays at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travelled in central Africa and performed taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others: Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes.[2]

From 1931 to 1966 he served as director of the Jardin Botanique National de Belgique (National Botanic Garden of Belgium),[1] where he shaped the transfer of the institute from the site in Brussels to the Bouchout Domain in Meise.

He was the initiator of a monographic flora series for central Africa, still continued today ("Flore d'Afrique centrale"). From 1959 to 1964 he was president of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.[1]

Partial bibliography

Eponymy

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. IPNI List of botanical taxa described and co-described by Robyns
  3. OCLC WorldCat published works
  4. IPNI.  Robyns.
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