Rafaël Herman Anna Govaerts (born 1968) is a
Belgian botanist. He is particularly noted for his work on plant
taxonomy
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
.
He has worked at the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...
since the 1990s,
and is the principal contributor to the
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) is an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected pl ...
.
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20th-century Belgian botanists
Botanists active in Kew Gardens
Botanists with author abbreviations
Belgian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Living people
1968 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Belgian botanists
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