Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進, Nakai Takenoshin, November 27, 1882, Gifu Prefecture – 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. During the Japanese occupation of the (former) Dutch East Indies (now: Indonesia) Takenoshin Nakai was between 1943 and 1945 the director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Batavia (now: Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor.

Taxonomist

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

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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

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