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Takenoshin Nakai

Takenoshin Nakai

Japanese botanist (1882-1952)

Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進, Nakai Takenoshin, November 27, 1882, Gifu Prefecture – December 6, 1952) was a Japanese botanist. In 1919[1] and 1930[2] he published papers on the plants of Japan and Korea, including the genus Cephalotaxus. During the Japanese occupation of the (former) Dutch East Indies (now: Indonesia) Takenoshin Nakai was between 1943 and 1945 the director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Batavia (now: Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor.

Takenoshin Nakai in Kagoshima, July 1952.

Taxonomist

The International Plant Names Index lists 4,733 records of plant names of which Nakai is an author or co-author.[3]

The standard author abbreviation Nakai is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    1919. Notulae and Plantas Japoniae at Koreae X XI. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 33(395): 193–194.
  2. [2]
    1930. Plantae Japonicae & Koreanae. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 44(526): 508.
  3. [3]
    "Search for "Nakai"". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  4. [4]
    International Plant Names Index.  Nakai.

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