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. Between 1943 and 1945, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Takenoshin Nakai was the director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Batavia (now Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor).
Taxonomist
editThe 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