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Yojiro Kimura

Yojiro Kimura

Japanese botanist (1912–2006)

Yojiro Kimura (木村 陽二郎, Kimura Yōjirō, 1912–2006)[1] was a Japanese botanist, known for his classification of monocotyledons,[2][3] and of Japanese species of Hypericum.[4]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Selected publications

  • Kimura, Y. 1953. The system and phylogenetic tree of plants. J. Jpn. Bot. 28: 97–104.
  • Kimura, Y. 1956. Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones. Notulae Systematicae, Herbier du Muséum de Paris 15:137–159.[5]
  • Kimura, Y. "Shokubutsu bunrui taikei no rekishi" [The History of Botanical Classification Systems] in "Seibutsugakushi ronshu" [Essays on The History of Biology]), (Yasaka Shobo, 1987).
  • Kimura, Y. "Natsurarisuto no keifu", (Chuou Kouron Sha, Inc., 1983)

Legacy

Yojiro Kimura is the authority for 58 taxa, such as Hypericum hayatae Y.Kimura[6]

The standard author abbreviation Y.Kimura is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    HUH 2015.
  2. [2]
    Dahlgren & Clifford 1982.
  3. [3]
    Lam 1959, p. 58.
  4. [4]
    Robson 2007.
  5. [5]
    Kimura 1956.
  6. [6]
    Tropicos 2015, Kimura, Yojiro.
  7. [7]
    International Plant Names Index.  Y.Kimura.

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