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.
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Taxonomist edit
The International Plant Names Index lists 4,733 records of plant names of which Nakai is an author or co-author.[3]
References edit
- ^ 1919. Notulae and Plantas Japoniae at Koreae X XI. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 33(395): 193–194.
- ^ 1930. Plantae Japonicae & Koreanae. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 44(526): 508.
- ^ "Search for "Nakai"". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Nakai.
Bibliography edit
- Nakai, Takenoshin (1943). Ordines, familiae, tribi, genera, sectiones, species, varietates, formae et combinationes novae a Prof. Nakai-Takenosin adhuc ut novis edita. Appendix. Quaestiones characterium naturalium plantarum vel Extractus ex praelectionibus pro aluminis botanicis Universitatis Imperialis Tokyoensis per annos 1926–1941. Alexander Doweld. GGKEY:7H9GRYU1LTT.
- Nakai, Takenoshin (1941). "Notulae ad Plantas Asiae Orientalis (XVI)". Jap. J. Bot. 17: 189–203.
- Nakai, Takenoshin (1930), Hisi-Syokubutu
External links edit
- Lecture notes on angiosperms from University of Maryland
- Article on the Korean bellflower
- Article on Abeliophyllum distichum by Yong Shik Kim and Mike Maunder from CURTIS'S Botanical Magazine, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Vol. 15(2): 141–146, 1998.
- Takenoshin Nakai 1882-1952 by Hiroshi Hara
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