Iinuma Yokusai (飯沼 慾斎, 1782–1865) was a Japanese botanist and physician. The standard author abbreviation Iinuma is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [1]
Iinuma studied botany under Ono Ranzan. [2] He spoke Dutch and was a practitioner of Western medicine. [3] [4] In 1856 he published the Somoku-zusetsu, the first botanical encyclopedia in Japan to use Linnaean taxonomy. [5] [6] The strawberry species Fragaria iinumae is named after him. [7]
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Iinuma Yokusai (飯沼 慾斎, 1782–1865) was a Japanese botanist and physician. The standard author abbreviation Iinuma is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [1]
Iinuma studied botany under Ono Ranzan. [2] He spoke Dutch and was a practitioner of Western medicine. [3] [4] In 1856 he published the Somoku-zusetsu, the first botanical encyclopedia in Japan to use Linnaean taxonomy. [5] [6] The strawberry species Fragaria iinumae is named after him. [7]
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