Japanese botanist (1912-1946).
Noriaki Fukuyama (福山 伯明, Fukuyama Noriaki; 1912 – 1946) was a Japanese botanist and orchidologist. He died in Taiwan. During his short life, Dr. Fukuyama described over a hundred new species of orchids from Micronesia, the Ryukyus and Taiwan. Most of the type specimens he collected were housed in his personal herbarium (Herb. Orch. Fuk.), located in Taiwan, and were previously believed to have been lost amid the upheaval in Japan following the close of World War II. However, most of Fukuyama's type materials of Taiwan orchids were rediscovered, in the course of sifting through the botanical co