About Pieter Willem Korthals
Lived 1807 – 1892 (aged 84). Pieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
Pieter Willem Korthals (1 September 1807, AmsterdamMarch 1892, Haarlem) was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. Among his many discoveries was the medicinal plant Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa). Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, "Over het geslacht Nepenthes", published in 1839.
Carl Ludwig Blume named the botanical genus Korthalsia (family Arecaceae) after Korthals, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem introduced the genus name Korthalsella (family Santalaceae) in his honor. Bulbophyllum korthalsii was named after him.
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Who was Pieter Willem Korthals?
Dutch botanist (1807–1892)
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Pieter Willem Korthals was born on 1 September 1807 in Amsterdam.
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Pieter Willem Korthals died on 8 February 1892 in Haarlem.
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Pieter Willem Korthals was a botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
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Pieter Willem Korthals was Dutch.
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