was a Japanese

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Biography

Masamune Genkei worked on the island of Formosa and then, after

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, at

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. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of

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and Taiwan, as well as for the identification of large numbers of new species.

Selected publications

* (1954) ''Flora Kainantensis: A List of Vascular Plants of Taiwan'' Plant Taxonomic Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Taipei National University, Taipei, Taiwan; * (1945) ''Boruneo no shokubutsu hoi. Enumeratio pteridophytarum Bornearum'' Taihoku Imperial University, Taihoku, Formosa; * (1942) ''Boruneo no kenka shokubutsu. Enumeratio phanerogamarum Bornearum'' Taihoku Imperial University, Taihoku, Formosa; * (1936) with Fukuyama, Noriaki ''Short flora of Formosa; or, An enumeration of higher cryptogamic and phanerogamic plants hitherto known from the island of Formosa and its adjacent islands'' "Kudoa", Taihoku, Formosa; * (1933) ''Phytogeographical position of Japan concerning indigenous genera of vascular cryptogamic plants'' Taihoku Imperial University, Taihoku, Formosa; * (1932) ''Contribution to our knowledge of the flora of the southern part of Japan'' Taihoku Imperial University, Formosa;

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20th-century Japanese botanists Botanists active in Japan Botanists with author abbreviations 1899 births 1993 deaths Scientists from Okayama Prefecture {{Japan-botanist-stub