Pierre Joseph Eyma (25 July 1903 – 1945) was a Dutch

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Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. Eyma was born in Maarssen,

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, in 1903. He studied at

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and served as an assistant at the university's herbarium between 1929 and 1937. Eyma earned a doctorate in 1932 for a taxonomic thesis on

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se plants. He travelled to

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in 1937 and in the following years made numerous botanical expeditions throughout the

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. Beginning in 1940, Eyma worked as an assistant at Herbarium Bogoriense in

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. He died in 1945 in a Japanese POW camp near

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. A number of plant species have been named after him, including '' Eurya eymae'', '' Nepenthes eymae'',D'Amato, P. 1993. ''

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'' 22(1–2): 21. and '' Randia eymai''.

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