Markku Häkkinen

Markku Häkkinen (14 January 1946 – 5 December 2015) was a Finnish self-taught botanist, considered one of the world's leading experts on the taxonomy of bananas. Forty-six out of the seventy known species of wild bananas have been described by Häkkinen.[1] The Linnaean Society of London awarded him the H. H. Bloomer Award of 2009.[2][3] In 2015 Häkkinen received the Finnish Cultural Foundation's Award for outstanding cultural achievement.[4]

Markku Häkkinen

Häkkinen became interested in botany on his travels around the world during his career as a fully certificated sea captain. After retiring, he dedicated himself to botany. He has made 18 expeditions to Borneo, Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. He has published over 80 papers in international scientific journals.

The following Musa species have been named in honor of him: Musa haekkinenii,[5] Musa velutina subsp. markkuana. [6]and Musa markkui .


References

List of Markku Häkkinen's publications

  1. "You searched on: Family = musaceae and Author standard form = hakkinen (including publishing authors, including basionym authors) and Ranks = all and Hybrids only = false, searching all records, sorting by name including family". Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Botanicum - Markku Häkkinen 14.1.1946 – 5.12.2015
  4. "FCF Annual report 2014-2015". skr.fi. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  5. http://www.promusa.org/tiki-index.php?page=Musa+haekkinenii
  6. http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.92.2.3
  7. IPNI.  Häkkinen.

6. http://www.sbg.org.sg/research/publicationbulletin.asp?sRange=2010-2013&sYear=2013%5B%5D 2013 – Vol. 65(1): 19–26.

7. http://www.promusa.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=312


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