> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 184](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264911) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/302-1) LSID 302-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11092558) QID Q11092558 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Asahina, Yasuhiko|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Asahina, Yasuhiko (1881-1975), Japanese lichenologist, studied chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Tokyo, ca. 1907 assistant at the University for Pharmacognosy Tokyo, studied at the Technical University of Zürich 1909-1912, and one semester with Emil Fischer in Berlin, professor at the University of Tokyo 1912-1941, specialized in lichen-chemistry, in retirement sometime director of reseach at the Institute of natural Resources and the Iatrochemical Research Institute at Tokyo (Tsumara laboratory). **Abbreviated name**: *Asah.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Asahina*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TNS|TNS]], further material in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection W|W]]. – For exsiccatae see Sayre (1969). #### Notes - (1): See TL-2/1: 72 - (2): Asahina discovered Paraphenylendiamine as a reagent for lichen compounds. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 81; Bossert p. 16; GR p. 585-586, pl. \[41\]; GR, cat. p. 60; IH 2: 43; Kew 1: 86; MW p. 23-24; MW suppl. p. 16-17; Roon p. 12; SBC p. 115; TL-2/1: 72, see also 10.227 and K. Shibata. #### Biofile - Anon., Rev. bryol. lichén. 42(1): 645. 1976 (d. 30 Jun 1975; articles over 300 publ. on lichens); Int. lichenol. Newsl. 9(1): 11. 1976 (notice of death). - Culberson, W.L. and C.F., Bryologist 79(2): 258-263. 1976 (obit., portr.). - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 16: 342. 1980. - Hisauchi, K. and H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 50(9): 257-258. 1975 (obit., portr.). - Kurokawa, S., Lichenologist 8: 93-94. 1976 (obit.). - Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11(1): 6. 1979 (herb. at TNS). - Mattick, F., Nova Hedwigia 26: xii-xv. 1975 (biogr. sketch, portr., b. 16 Apr 1881, d. 30 Jun 1975). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 114-115. 1969 (*Lichenes japoniae exsiccat*1, Tokyo, 300 nos.) #### Outside our period Y. Asahina and S. Shibata, *Chemistry of lichen substances*, Tokyo 1954, reprint ed. Vaals/Amsterdam 1971 (see e.g. Taxon 21: 365-366. 26 Mai 1972). ### Publications ##### n.19.572. Zur Systematik der Flechtenstoffe **Title** *Zur Systematik der Flechtenstoffe*... Tokyo 1934. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1934, cover-t.p., p. \[33\]-45. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Acta Phytochimica 8(1): 33-45. 1934. ##### n.19.573. Über die Reaktion von Flechten-Thallus **Title** *Über die Reaktion von Flechten-Thallus*... Tokyo 1934. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1934, cover-t.p., p. \[47\]-64. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Acta Phytochimica 8(1): 47-64. 1934. ##### n.19.574. Mikrochemischer Nachweis der Flechtenstoffe **Title** *Mikrochemischer Nachweis der Flechtenstoffe* I \[-XI\]... Tokyo 1936 \[-1940\]. Oct. **Notes** *1*: 25 Jul 1936, cover-t.p., p. 60-75 \[516-525\]. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Jap. Bot. 12(7): 516-525. 1936. *2*: 25 Dec 1936, cover-t.p., p. 25-38 \[859-872\]. – Id. 12(12): 859-872. 1936. *3*: 25 Jul 1937, cover-t.p., p. 59-66 \[529-536\], *pl. 2* (uncol. phot.). – Id. 13(7): 829-836, *pl. 2.* 1937. *4*: 15 Dec 1937, cover-t.p., p. 1-7 \[855-861\], *pl. 5.* – Id. 13(12): 855-861, *pl. 5.* 1937. *5*: 15 Jan 1938, cover-t.p., p. 39-44 \[39-44\], *pl. 1.* – Id. 14(1): 39-44, *pl. 1.* 1938. *6*: 15 Apr 1938, cover-t.p., p. 22-28 \[244-250\], *pl. 4.* – Id. 14(4): 244-250, *pl. 4.* 1938. *7*: 15 Mai 1938, cover-t.p., p. 30-35 \[318-323\], *pl. 4.* – Id. 14(5): 318-323, *pl. 4.* 1938. *8*: 15 Oct 1938, cover-t.p., p. 22-31 \[650-659\], *pl. 5.* – Id. 14(10): 650-659, *pl. 5.* 1938. *9*: 15 Dec 1938, cover-t.p., p. 1-7 \[767-773\], *pl. 6.* – Id. 14(12): 767-773, *pl. 6.* 1938. *10*: 15 Aug 1939, cover-t.p., p. 1-8 \[465-472\], *pl. 1.* – Id., *pl. 2.* – Id. 15(8): \[465\]-472, *pl. 1.* 1939. *11*: 15 Apr 1940, cover-t.p., p. 1-9 \[185-193\]. – Id. 16(4): 185-193. 1940. *Copies*: L.