Genkei Masamune (正宗 厳敬, Masamune Genkei, 1899–1993) was a Japanese botanist.
Genkei Masamune | |
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Born | |
Died | June 18, 1993 | (aged 94)
Occupation | Botanist |
Relatives | Hakuchō Masamune Atsuso Masamune Tokuzaburo Masamune (brothers) |
Masamune Genkei worked on the island of Formosa and then, after World War II, at Kanazawa University. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of Borneo and Taiwan, as well as for the identification of large numbers of new species.[1]