Japanese botanist (1957-).
Shinobu Akiyama (秋山 忍 born 1957) is a Japanese botanist who works at the Tsukuba Botanical Garden studying the taxonomy of spermatophytes, particularly in the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan Mountains The standard author abbreviation S.Akiyama is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. As of March 2019, she is the author or one of the authors of 170 taxon names in the International Plant Names Index.