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Pierre Joseph Eyma

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Name
  
Pierre Eyma

Died
  
1945

Education
  
Utrecht University


Pierre Joseph Eyma Pierre Joseph Eyma 1905 1989 Find A Grave Memorial

Pierre Joseph Eyma (25 July 1903 – 1945) was a Dutch botanist.

Eyma was born in Maarssen, the Netherlands, in 1903. He studied at Utrecht University and served as an assistant at the university's herbarium between 1929 and 1937. Eyma earned a doctorate in 1932 for a taxonomic thesis on Surinamese plants. He travelled to Java in 1937 and in the following years made numerous botanical expeditions throughout the Dutch East Indies. Beginning in 1940, Eyma worked as an assistant at Herbarium Bogoriense in Bogor, Java. He died in 1945 in a Japanese POW camp near Palembang, Sumatra.

A number of plant species have been named after him, including Eurya eymae, Nepenthes eymae, and Randia eymai.

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Pierre Joseph Eyma Wikipedia