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Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns

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Nationality
  
Belgium

Fields
  
Botany

Died
  
1986


Name
  
Frans Edouard

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Robyns

Institution
  
Botanic Garden Meise

Institutions
  
National Botanic Garden of Belgium

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

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Biography

He received his doctorate in sciences at the University of Louvain. 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.

From 1931 to 1966 he served as director of the Jardin Botanique National de Belgique (National Botanic Garden of Belgium), 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.

Eponymy

  • Robynsia, family Rubiaceae, name introduced by John Hutchinson (1931).
  • Robynsiella, family Amaranthaceae, name introduced by Karl Suessenguth (1938).
  • Robynsiochloa, family Poaceae, name introduced by Henri Jacques-Félix (1960).
  • Robynsiophyton, family Fabaceae, name introduced by Rudolf Wilczek (1953).

    • References

    Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns Wikipedia
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