Satake, Yoshisuke |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II) |
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Born: 1902, Yuzawa-machi, Akita Pref., Japan. |
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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. |
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He collected in the Napan District, Vogelkop, W. New Guinea, March-May 1943.1 His party included S. Ijiri and T. Niimura (see there). |
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In Tokyo Sci. Mus. Herb. [TNS]: about 700 sheets of flowering plants and ferns. |
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(1) Y. Satake: ‘Journal of Researches in West Irian’ (1943). In Japanese. |