Yamazaki, Takasi (Takashi) (1921-)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Takasi (Takashi)
Last name
Yamazaki
Initials
T.(T.)
Life Dates
1921 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
A, BM, C, DAO, E, KYO, P, TI
Countries
Japanese region: JapanWestern Asia: Afghanistan
Associate(s)
Hara, Hiroshi (1911-1986) (co-collector)
Kanai, Hiroo (1930-) (co-collector)
Murata, Gen (1907-) (co-collector)
Ohashi, Hiroyoshi (1936-) (co-collector)
Ohba, Hideaki (1943-) (co-collector)
Tanaka, O. (fl. 1967) (co-collector)
Biography
Botanist Takasi Yamazaki of the University of Tokyo collected plants in Asia as a member of several expeditions, including the 1955 Kyoto University Scientific Expedition to Karakoram and Hindukush and a botanical expedition to Bhutan, Darjeeling and Central Nepal in 1967.

Yamazaki was an editor of the most recent Flora of Japan and contributed to Volume 1: Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae (1995). He published A Revision of the Genus Rhododendron in Japan, Korea and Sakhalin the following year.

Sources:
M. Alam, 2009, "Plant Collectors in Afghanistan", Bulletin de la Société vaudoise des Sciences naturelles, 91(3): 325
Y. Kadota, 2007, Journal of Japanese Botany, 82(6): 357
T. Yamashita, 2007, ibid: 358.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 718; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1195;
Yamazaki, Takasi (Takashi) (1921-)
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