Yojiro Kimura (木村 陽二郎, Kimura Yōjirō; 1912–2006) was a Japanese botanist, known for his classification of monocotyledons, and of Japanese species of Hypericum.
Selected publications Kimura, Y. 1953. The system and phylogenetic tree of plants. J. Jpn. Bot. 28: 97–104. Kimura, Y. 1956. Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones. Notulae Systematicae, Herbier du Muséum de Paris 15:137–159. Kimura, Y. "Shokubutsu bunrui taikei no rekishi" [The History of Botanical Classification Systems] in "Seibutsugakushi ronshu" [Essays on The History of Biology]), (Yasaka Shobo, 1987). Kimura, Y. "Natsurarisuto no keifu", (Chuou Kouron Sha, Inc., 1983)
Legacy Yojiro Kimura is the authority for 58 taxa, such as Hypericum hayatae Y.Kimura
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Further reading Turrill, W. B., ed. (2013) [1959]. Vistas in Botany: A Volume in Honour of the Bicentenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. London: Pergamon. ISBN 9781483153391. Retrieved 31 December 2015.