Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter 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.

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),

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).

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