Job Kuijt (25 May 193015 December 2024), was a Dutch-born Canadian botanist, with a particular interest in parasitic plants, including Viscaceae, Loranthaceae and Eremolepidaceae.
Life and Career Born in 1930 in Velsen, the Netherlands, he migrated to British Columbia in 1948.
in 1958 he was awarded a Ph.D. from UC, Berkeley. From 1968 to 1989 he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta. He later worked as professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1964, and the George Lawson Medal in 1971 by the Canadian Botanical Association.
Names published (incomplete list: query lists some 645 names-some repeated) Antidaphne andina Kuijt—Fl. Ecuador 24(32A): 7. 1986 Antidaphne antidaphnoides (Rizzini) Kuijt—Syst. Bot. Monogr. 18: 26. 1988 Antidaphne glaziovii (Tiegh.) Kuijt—Syst. Bot. Monogr. 18: 26. 1988 Antidaphne hondurensis Kuijt—Novon 8: 402, fig. 1–6. 1998 Aetanthus dichotomus (Ruiz & Pav.) Kuijt—Fl. Ecuador 24: 167. 1986 Aetanthus macranthus (Hook.) Kuijt—Fl. Ecuador 24(32C): 169. 1986 Aetanthus megaphyllus Kuijt—Pl. Diversity Evol. 131(1-3): 20. 2014 Aetanthus pascoensis Kuijt—Pl. Diversity Evol. 131(1-3): 33. 2014 Aetanthus prolongatus Kuijt—Pl. Diversity Evol. 131(1-3): 36. 2014 Aetanthus sessilifolius Kuijt—Pl. Diversity Evol. 131(1-3): 38. 2014 Aetanthus tachirensis Kuijt—Pl. Diversity Evol. 131(1-3): 40. 2014 Phoradendron nickrentianum Kuijt, Novon 21(4): 456 (2011).
(These may not be accepted names.)
Selected publications
Kuijt, Job, (2009) "Monograph of Psittacanthus (Loranthaceae)." 361-pp.
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