Biography

Japanese moss taxonomist and botany professor at Nagoya University. Noriwo Takaki mainly worked on Japanese mosses, but also collected plants in Papua New Guinea. He was born in Kumamoto-ken, southern Japan, and studied at Tokyo Bunrika University. He gained his PhD in 1956, completing a thesis on the Brachytheciaceae in Japan and adjacent areas. In all, Takaki published some 250 papers on bryology, including many significant works on Asiatic Dicrinaceae. In 1956 he discovered the the moss Takakia Hattori in rock crevices high on Mt. Gaki in central Japan, which was named in his honour. Takaki was on the board of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory and was elected the first president of the Bryological Society of Japan in 1972.

Sources:
Z. Iwatsuki, 2006, The Bryological Times, 121: 3.