Iinuma Yokusai

Botanist and physician (1782-1865).

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.

Abbreviations: Iinuma
Occupations: physician, botanist
Citizenships: Japan
Dates: 1782-07-19T00:00:00Z – 1865-06-27T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Kameyama
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 1 plant, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed to1 plant:

Musa basjoo (Japanese Banana) Siebold & Zucc. ex Iinuma 1867
perennial, medicinal, and vegetable plant species in the musaceae family
Musa basjoo, known variously as Japanese banana, Japanese fiber banana or hardy banana, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the banana family Musaceae. It was previously thought to have originated in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, from where it was first described in cultivation, but is now known to have originated in the subtropical southern Chinese province of Sichuan. Its specific name is derived from its Japanese common name, bashō (芭蕉).
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