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). [1]: 59 Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, " Over het geslacht Nepenthes", published in 1839. [2]
Carl Ludwig Blume named the botanical genus Korthalsia (family Arecaceae) after Korthals, [3] and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem introduced the genus name Korthalsella (family Santalaceae) in his honor. [4] Bulbophyllum korthalsii was named after him.
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). [1]: 59 Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, " Over het geslacht Nepenthes", published in 1839. [2]
Carl Ludwig Blume named the botanical genus Korthalsia (family Arecaceae) after Korthals, [3] and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem introduced the genus name Korthalsella (family Santalaceae) in his honor. [4] Bulbophyllum korthalsii was named after him.