Takenoshin Nakai

Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進, Nakai Takenoshin, November 27, 1882 – 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.

Takenoshin Nakai in Kagoshima, July 1952.

Taxonomist

The International Plant Names Index lists 4,733 records of plant names of which Nakai is an author or co-author.[3]

References

1. 1919. Notulae and Plantas Japoniae at Koreae X XI. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 33(395): 193–194.
2. 1930. Plantae Japonicae & Koreanae. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 44(526): 508.
3. "Search for "Nakai"". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
4. IPNI.  Nakai.

Bibliography

• 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

• 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