Maarten J. M. Christenhusz


Dr Maarten Joost Maria Christenhusz is a Dutch botanist, natural historian and photographer.

Career

He was born in Enschede, the Netherlands, received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Utrecht University in Biology, and earned his PhD from the University of Turku, Finland in 2007. He is an authority on fern, gymnosperm and angiosperm classification, and is a contributor to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. He has specialised in Marattiaceae and he described many species of Danaea, including Danaea kalevala from the Lesser Antilles. A species of Moraceae, Dorstenia christenhuszii was named in honour of its discoverer. He is editor for the Linnean Society. He lives in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK.
He is the former chief editor and initiator of the botanical journal Phytotaxa, an associate editor of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society and chief editor of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. He has an interest in island biogeography, botanical gardens, floristic treatments, horticulture, photography, natural history and taxonomy.
He works as a botanical consultant
He is the lead author of an encyclopedia of vascular plants called Plants of the World.
Vascular plant families and genera that were named by him or together with colleagues.
Species that were named by him or together with colleagues.

Honours