Pieter Willem Korthals, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPieter Willem Korthals
Dutch botanist
Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1807
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 08-Feb-1892
Profession: botanist
Nationality: Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Pieter Willem Korthals
- Pieter Willem Korthals (September 1, 1807, Amsterdam – March 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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