Paul Maas (botanist)

Paulus Johannes Maria "Paul" Maas (born 27 February 1939, in Arnhem) is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics.

[1] The Annonaceae and saprotrophic plants from the neotropics, such as the Burmanniaceae, are two major areas of research.

In 2008, he was honoured when botanists Mols, Kessler & Rogstad published a genus of flowering plants from Indo-China, belonging to the family Annonaceae as Maasia.

[2] Maas is married to fellow botanist Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer.

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