Rafaël Herman Anna Govaerts (born 1968) is a Belgian botanist. He is particularly noted for his work on plant

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. He studied a Bachelor in Science at the European University College Brussels (EHSAL), and since 1994, 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 ...

. He is the principal contributor to the

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) was an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected p ...

, which was completed in 2023, and will continue to be updated as

Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. History Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online i ...

. He is also a Fellow of the

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript a ...

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External sources

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Staff Profile
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 Fellows of the Linnean Society of London {{botanist-stub