Career

Collections

Literature

 

Sato, Masami

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

career:

Japanese botanist who during his internment in Galang Island near Singapore at the end of World War II made a collection of plants.1 During the war he apparently visited Buitenzorg (Bogor).2

 

 

collections:

The collection from Galang Island comprises 72 spermatophytes, 7 pteridophytes and some cryptogams. Present location not known to me.

 

literature:

(1) M. Sato: ‘Florula galangensis’ (J. Jap. Bot. 24, 1949, p. 46-52, 2 fig., 1 map).

(2) M. Sato: ‘Notes on the luminous Fungi found in the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg’ (J. Jap. Bot. 25, 1950, p. 137-138; in Japanese).