- Source: Iinuma Yokusai
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.
Iinuma studied botany under Ono Ranzan. He spoke Dutch and was a practitioner of Western medicine. In 1856 he published the Somoku-zusetsu, the first botanical encyclopedia in Japan to use Linnaean taxonomy. The strawberry species Fragaria iinumae is named after him.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Iinuma Yokusai
- Iinuma
- 1782
- Shimada Mitsufusa
- List of botanists by author abbreviation (I–J)
- Botanical illustration
- 1780s
- Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
