was a Japanese
botanist. In 1919
[1919. Notulae and Plantas Japoniae at Koreae X XI. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 33(395): 193–194.] and 1930
[1930. Plantae Japonicae & Koreanae. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 44(526): 508.] he published papers on the plants of Japan and
Korea
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, including the genus ''
Cephalotaxus
''Cephalotaxus'', commonly called plum yew or cowtail pine, is a genus of conifers comprising 11 species, treated in either the Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. The genus is endemic to easter ...
''. During the Japanese occupation of the (former)
Dutch East Indies
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(now:
Indonesia
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) Takenoshin Nakai was between 1943 and 1945 the director of
's Lands Plantentuin in
Batavia (now:
Bogor Botanical Gardens in
Bogor.
Taxonomist
The
International Plant Names Index lists 4,733 records of plant names of which Nakai is an author or co-author.
References
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External links
Lecture notes on angiosperms from University of MarylandArticle on the Korean bellflowerby 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
20th-century Japanese botanists
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1882 births
1952 deaths
Botanists active in Japan
Japanese taxonomists
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