HiranoM

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Hirano, Minoru

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

Born: 1910, Shizuoka, Japan

career:

Graduated from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, in 1937. Professor of Yoshida College, Kyoto University Specialist in fresh-water Algae. During a collecting trip in Borneo he was accompanied by M. Hotta (see there) and M. Matsubara (ethnology student).

Collecting localities:

See sub Hotta.

collections:

Herb. Kyoto Univ. [KYO], Hirano & Hotta nos 1-1656.¹ Probably several (? mostly cryptogams) in his own series. Sarawak dupl. in Herb. Edinb. [E].

literature:

(1) K. Iwatsuki: ‘Ferns of Borneo, collected by M. Hirano and M. Hotta’ (Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 21, 1965, p. 91-100, 2 fig.); M. Tagawa: ‘Ferns of Borneo, collected, etc.’ (ibid. 21, 1965, p. 173-180; 22, 1967, p. 183-191).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Hirano, Minoru
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1910, Shizuoka, Japan
	career: Graduated from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, in 1937. Professor of Yoshida College, Kyoto University Specialist in fresh-water Algae. During a collecting trip in Borneo he was accompanied by M. Hotta (see there) and M. Matsubara (ethnology student).
	Collecting localities: See sub Hotta.
	collections: Herb. Kyoto Univ. [KYO], Hirano & Hotta nos 1-1656.¹ Probably several (? mostly cryptogams) in his own series. Sarawak dupl. in Herb. Edinb. [E].
	literature: (1) K. Iwatsuki: ‘Ferns of Borneo, collected by M. Hirano and M. Hotta’ (Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 21, 1965, p. 91-100, 2 fig.); M. Tagawa: ‘Ferns of Borneo, collected, etc.’ (ibid. 21, 1965, p. 173-180; 22, 1967, p. 183-191).