Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns
| Walter Robyns | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 May 1901 Aalst, Belgium |
| Died | 27 December 1986 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Belgium |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | National Botanic Garden of Belgium |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Robyns |
Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, 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. 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), 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.
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