Walter Robyns | |
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Born | 25 May 1901 |
Died | 27 December 1986 | (aged 85)
Nationality | Belgian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | National Botanic Garden of Belgium |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Robyns |
Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns (1901-1986), known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist. His son, André Robyns (1935–2003), was also a botanist.
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]