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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.
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]
Scabiosa is a genus in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) of flowering plants. Many of the species in this genus have common names that include the word scabious, but some plants commonly known as scabious are currently classified in related genera such as Knautia and Succisa; at least some of these were formerly placed in Scabiosa. Another common name for members of this genus is pincushion flowers.
Solidago virgaurea, the European goldenrod or woundwort, is an herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as North Africa and northern, central, and southwestern Asia. It is grown as a garden flower with many different cultivars. It flowers profusely in late summer.
Bupleurum is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs or woody shrubs, with about 190 species, belonging to the family Apiaceae. The full size of its species may vary between a few cm to up to 3 m high. Their compound umbels of small flowers are adorned with bracteoles that are sometimes large and may play a role in attracting pollinators. Rare among the Apiaceae are the simple leaves, bracts, and bracteoles. The genus is almost exclusively native in the Old World Northern Hemisphere, with one species native to North America and one species native to southern Africa.
Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov was a Soviet botanist and naturalist, a specialist on amentiferous plants—willows (Salix), poplars (Populus), and birches (Betula) as well as plants of the evening primrose family (Onagraceae), A.K. Skvortsov was, at the same time, well known in Russia as an editor in Priroda (Nature) Magazine (1971–2005) and author of many articles on botany, evolutionary biology, and Darwinism. A botanist of vast erudition, Skvortsov was a surveyor and contributor to many regional floras and a tireless collector of plant specimens. He collected at least 80,000 plant samples while walking across nearly all of the Soviet Union including the most remote regions of Russia and adjacent republics. He traveled in many other countries, including Northern and Central Europe, the United States, India, and China. The establishment of the Herbarium at the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow as a world-class depository with a vast foreign exchange program is largely due to Skvortsov's efforts. He also made additions to the living collection of the Main Botanical Garden. His approach toward botany and evolution inspired him to undertake experimental work in plant introduction. Together with a team of colleagues and students, he successfully worked on domesticating and improving the taste of blue honeysuckles. He also developed a cultivar of an apricot hardy in Moscow. Skvortsov played a role as a conservation advocate proposing and facilitating the establishment of a new national park in his homeland, Kaluga Oblast and Smolensk Oblast of Central European Russia. He cared about the natural heritage of his country, but also about preservation of the Russian language. He spoke out for high language standards in scientific publications.
Conioselinum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to Eurasia and North America. Its species are erect perennial plants with deeply toothed compound leaves and umbels of white flowers. Plants of this genus are known commonly as hemlock-parsley.
I. M. Johnston, was a United States botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University. His plant collections are housed in the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, in Claremont, and also in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University.
Kitagawa is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ladyginia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Iris kobayashii is a beardless iris in the genus Iris, in the subgenus Limniris and in the series Tenuifoliae of the genus. It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial, from China. It has slightly twisted leaves, short stems and 1 to 2 purple or blue and yellow flowers.
Sofya Georgiyevna Tamamshyan (1901–1981) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant taxonomist noted for describing 7 genera and more than 50 species, and for authoring over 120 works. The standard author abbreviation Tamamsch. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Ferulopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the umbellifer family Apiaceae, native to the Altai, Mongolia and Siberia. They form cushions which are ecologically important in the cold areas in which they live. Some authorities have it as a synonym of Phlojodicarpus.
Vicatia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It is also in tribe Selineae.
Tamamschjanella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Ducrosia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Korshinskia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It is also in the Tribe Pleurospermeae.
Paulita is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Kitagawia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Ostericum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Neogaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It just contains one species, Neogaya simplex(L.) Meisn. It can be found in Europe, in the Alps, the western and southern Carpathians, also former Yugoslavia, Belarus and the European parts of Russia. It is also found in Asia, within Kazakhstan, China, and western Siberia.