Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進, Nakai Takenoshin; November 27, 1882, Gifu Prefecture – December 6, 1952) was a Japanese botanist. In 1919 and 1930, he published papers on the plants of Japan and Korea, including the genus Cephalotaxus. Between 1943 and 1945, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Takenoshin Nakai was the director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Batavia (now Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor).
Taxonomist The International Plant Names Index lists 4,733 records of plant names of which Nakai is an author or co-author.
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External links Lecture notes on angiosperms from University of Maryland Archived 2006-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Article on the Korean bellflower Article on Abeliophyllum distichum by Yong Shik Kim and Mike Maunder from CURTIS'S Botanical Magazine, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Vol. 15(2): 141–146, 1998. Takenoshin Nakai 1882-1952 by Hiroshi Hara