Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

 

Hatusima, Sumihiko

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

 

Born: 1906, Nagasaki-Ken, Japan.

 

career:

Botanist, educated at Kyushu Imperial University; Lecturer in Dendrology; Ph. Dr in 1942. He accompanied Prof. Kanehira (see there) on the New Guinea expedition 1940; he came to Java towards the end of 1942, as Head of the Buitenzorg Herbarium (Febr. 1943-1945) ; at present Professor at Kayushima College, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu. Made a joint expedition from Kagoshima University Japan and the National Science Museum at Manila, P.I. in 1964.1 He was accompanied by M. Sato, a botany student of Kagoshima University, and by the Philippine assistants F. Mercado and A. Zabala.

 

Collecting localities:

1964. N. Philippines: after a visit to Manila, collecting 8 days in Batan Island.1 and 4 in Camiguin (Nov.). In Batan I. collecting on Mt Iraya, along the coast of Songsong Bay, on the rocky cliff between Basco and Mahatao, and in the valley behind Mahatao. 

 

collections:

1054 nos Philippines, totalling 2122 specimens.

 

literature:

(1) S. Hatusima: ‘An Enumeration of the Plants of Batan Island, N. Philippines’ (Mem. Fac. Agr. Kagoshima Univ. 5, 1966, p. 13-64, 5 pl., 1 fig., map).

H. Inoue: ‘A small collection of liverworts from Isl. Batan, the Philippines’ (Hikobia 4, 1965, p. 272-276).

T. Shin: ‘A small Collection of Mosses from Isl. Batan, the Philippines’ (Hikobia 4, 1965, p. 263-271,1 fig.).

 

biographical data:

Portr. in Hatusima, Flora Ryukyus 1971, p. 69.