Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns

Who is Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns?

Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, known as Walter Robyns, was a Belgian botanist.

After two long stays in Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, travels in central Africa and taxonomic work on many groups of tropical African plants, amongst others Rubiaceae, grasses and legumes, he became director of the 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 and was among the founders of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.