Genus Aerisilvaea

For Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902–1985), English botanist and classicist. He studied classics at Cambridge University but changed to natural sciences, obtaining his BA degree in 1925. He joined Kew Gardens and became acting principal scientific officer at the end of 1948. Among his achievements he authored nine new botanical families, conducted extensive research in the family Euphorbiaceae with papers relating to this family in Siam (1972), Borneo (1975), New Guinea and Australia (1980), Sumatra (1981) and Philippines (1983) and became an expert in Asian botany and entomology. He had a special interest in spermatophytes. He also amassed a compilation of Russian botanical terms, worked on Index Kewensis and the preparation of the seventh edition of A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns by John Christopher Willis.