Jan Gerard Wessels Boer (born 10 August 1936,

Haren, Groningen Haren (; ) is a town and a former municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located in the direct urban area of the City of Groningen and, in January 2019, was merged into municipality of Groningen. Haren is a commuting town with many ...

- died Molenaarsgraaf 13 July 2019) was a

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

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taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the science, scientific study of naming, defining (Circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxon, taxa (si ...

best known for his work on palms. He has described 37 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the palm familyInternational Plant Names Index
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1936 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists 21st-century Dutch botanists Utrecht University alumni People from Haren, Groningen {{Netherlands-botanist-stub