Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Niimura, Tarô

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

Born: 1917, Shimosuwa-machi, Nagano Pref., Japan. Died: 1951, Tokyo, Japan.

career:

Graduated from Suwa Middle School in 1935; Laboratory worker of the National Science Museum at Tokyo, 1938-51. He accompanied Y. Satake (see there) to New Guinea.

Collecting localities:

W. New Guinea, March to June 1943.

collections:

About 700 sheets of flowering plants and ferns; Herb. Nat. Sc. Mus. Tokyo [TNS].