Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1902, Yuzawa-machi, Akita Pref., Japan.

career:

Botanist, graduating from the University of Tokyo (1928), taking his D.Sc. in Tokyo in 1937. Curator of the Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 1939-67.

The palm genus Satakentia H.E.Moore has been named after him.

Collecting localities:

He collected in the Napan District, Vogelkop, W. New Guinea, March-May 1943.¹ His party included S. Ijiri and T. Niimura (see there).

collections:

In Tokyo Sci. Mus. Herb. [TNS]: about 700 sheets of flowering plants and ferns.

literature:

(1) Y. Satake: ‘Journal of Researches in West Irian’ (1943). In Japanese.