How to Pronounce Pieter Willem Korthals
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Sep 01, 1807 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Died on 08 Feb 1892 (aged 84)
Dutch botanist
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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.
