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Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis

Dutch botanist (1901–1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
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Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis was a Dutch botanist. Van Steenis wrote many publications on the flora of the Maritime Southeast Asia region, among others about taxonomy and plant geography. Besides his expeditions in the Malay region, he also traveled in Australia and New Zealand.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.