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### Author
Shirai, Mitsutaro ("Kotaro") (1863-1962), Japanese botanist (mycologist); studied in Germany; ultimately at the Agronomical Institute of the University of Tokyo.
**Abbreviated name**: *Shirai* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shirai*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection TI|TI]]. – Duplicates at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.). – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Ainsworth p. 231, 323, 347; Barnhart 3: 272 (d. 30 Mai 1932); Bossert p. 365; GR cat. p. 71; Hirsch p. 273; Hortus 3: 1204; LS 24838-24862, 39229; MW p. 448-449; Stevenson p. 1258; Urban-Berl. p. 282, 397.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Jap. biogr. encycl. ed. 3: 1431-1432. 1964.
- Miyaké, K., Science ser. 2. 13: 737. 1901.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 182, *pl. 150.* 1905 (portr.).
#### Eponymy
*Shiraia* P. Hennings (1900); *Shiraiella* K. Hara (1914).
### Publications
##### n.11.899. A list of japanese fungi
**Title**
Nippon kinrui mo kuroku. *A list of japanese fungi* hitherto known... Tokyo 1905.
**Abbreviated title**: *List jap. fung.*
**Notes**
*Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1905 (Bot. Centralbl. 8 Mai 1906), p. \[i-ii\], 1-2, \[1\]-124, one-sided, \[1\]-12, \[1\]-8, \[1\]-5. \[1\]-\[3\], 1-2. *Copy*: FH.
*Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1917, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-733, 1-70, 1-40, \[1\]-2, \[1\]-19. *Copy*: USDA.
*Ed. 3*: 1927, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-448, 1-14, \[1\]-30, \[1\]-12, \[i-iv, err.\]. *Copies*: FH, Stevenson. – "Revised and enlarged by Kanesuke Hara (third edition) 1927".