Paul Arnold Fryxell was an American botanist known for his work on flowering plants, especially those within the Malvaceae.
After employment with the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station (1952–1955) and the Wichita State University (Asst.
He retired from this position in 1994 and became adjunct professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.
[citation needed] He was a contributor of treatments of the Malvaceae to numerous Neotropical floristic works and conducted fieldwork in the neotropics, primarily in Mexico but also in parts of Central and South America, as well as in tropical Australia.
[citation needed] In 1974, he was honoured by botanist David Martin Bates, (1934-2019), who named a monotypic genus of plants after him,[7] Fryxellia (belonging to the family Malvaceae), comes from Mexico and Texas.