Masao Kitagawa
Japanese botanist and pteridologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Masao Kitagawa (北川 政夫, Kitagawa Masao, 1910–1995) was a Japanese botanist and pteridologist. He spent most of his academic career at Yokohama National University.
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In 1986, a Russian botanist Michael Georgievich Pimenov published a genus of flowering plants, from central Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae, as Kitagawia in his honour.[1]
The standard author abbreviation Kitag. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]