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### Author
Shibata, Keita (1878-1949), Japanese botanist and biochemist; Dr. phil. Tokyo 1899; Dr. Sci. 1904; professor of botany at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 1908-1910; studied with Pfeffer at Leipzig 1910-1911; lecturer in plant-biochemistry and physiology at Tokyo University 1910, e.o. professor of botany ib. 1912; ord. professor 1918-1938; director of the Iwata Institute for Plant biochemistry 1938-1949.
**Abbreviated name**: *Shib.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shibata*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 270 (b. 20 Sep 1878); Biol.-Dokum. 16: 8648; BJI 2: 164; Bossert p. 364; Hirsch p. 273; Hortus 3: 1204; LS 24831-24832; Moebius p. 337; MW p. 446, suppl. p. 317; SK 1: 484; TL-2/5283; Tucker 1: 648, 3: 279; Zander ed. 10, p. 716, ed. 11, p. 817.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Allg. bot. Z. 14: 212. 1908 (app. Sapporo), 28/29: 55. 1925 (app. Tokyo); Ann. Jard. bot. Buitenzorg 45: 42. 1935 (worked in Buitenzorg 191 7); Bot. Centralbl. 108: 512. 1908 (app. Sapporo), 113: 560. 1910 (resigns position Sapporo; appointed lecturer Tokyo but goes first to Germany); Hedwigia 48: (141). 1909 (app. Sapporo), 50: (143). 1910 (to Europe), 66: (119). 1926 (app. prof. bot. Univ. Tokyo); Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 56: 828. 1915 (Schüler Pfeffers); Nat. Nov. 31: 69. 1909 (app. Sapporo); Österr. bot. Z. 58: 495. 1908 (app. Sapporo).
- Arditti, J., ed., et al., Orchid biol. 1: 119, 126, 128, 130, 131, 154. 1977.
- Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 665. 1985.
- Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 119. 1973.
- Nakano, H., Bot. Mag., Tokyo 51: 388-392. 1937 62: 158. 1949 (obit., bibl.).
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 6(4): 2434. 1940 (bibl.).
- Tamiya, H., Ber. deut bot. Ges. 68a: 13-16. 1955 (obit., portr.).
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 224. 1936, 3: 195, 196. 1937, 4: 85, 560. 1938, 5: 512. 1939; Man. pteridol. 639 \[index\]. 1938.
#### Composite works
- (1) With T. Makino, *Sasa* 1901, TL-2/5283.
- (2) Founder and first editor of *Acta phytochimica*.
- (3) With Y. Asahina, *Chemistry of lichen substances* 1954: facsimile ed. Vaals-Amsterdam 1971.
#### Commemorative publication
Misc. Rep. Inst. nat. Resources, Tokyo 17/18. 1950.
#### Eponymy
*Shibataea* Makino ex Nakai (1933); *Shibateranthis* Nakai (1937).
### Publications
##### n.11.891. Cytologische Studien über die endotrophen Mykorrhizen
**Title**
*Cytologische Studien über die endotrophen Mykorrhizen*... Leipzig (Gebrüder Borntraeger) 1902. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1902, p. \[i\], \[643\]-684. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Jahrb. wiss. Bot. 37(4): 643-684. 1902.