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

Born: 1901, Kagawa Pref., Japan.

career:

Graduated at Dept Bot. Fac. Science, Kyoto University, 1925. For a long time Professor of Botany (palaeobotany) of Osaka City University, later of Mukogawa Women’s College.

Collecting localities:

During World War II in New Guinea (Manokwari, Momi, etc., 1943), and in Borneo (Danau Saloh, Feb. 1945).

collections:

About 2000 specimens from New Guinea in Kyoto Herb. Fac. Science [KYO] (specimens inserted in the general herbarium by family); at least partly also in Herb. Bog. [BO] (> 10 nos).

biographical data:

Portr. in Hatusima, Flora Ryukyus 1971, p. 63.

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