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Ohwi, Jisaburo

 

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

 

Born: 1905, Tokyo, Japan. Died: 1977.

 

career:

Botanist, educated at Kyoto University, graduated in 1930; Lecturer at the Botanical Institute of Kyoto University, 1936-43; on the staff of the Buitenzorg Herbarium, 1943-45; since 1946 on the non-official staff of the Tokyo Science Museum.

 

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: at least 15 nos of grasses, collected at Singapore and Buitenzorg (W. Java).1

 

literature:

(1) cf. J. Ohwi: ‘New or noteworthy grasses from Asia’ (Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. no 18, 1947, p. 1-15).

 

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