> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 488](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066828) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11933-1) LSID 11933-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1515363) QID Q1515363 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Yatabe, Ryôkichi (1851-1899), Japanese botanist; BS Cornell 1876; studied with A. Gray and Farlow at Harvard; first professor of botany at Tokyo Imperial University; founder of the Botanical Society of Japan and president of the Higher Teacher's College; director of the Botanic Gardens Tokyo Imperial University 1877-1890. **Abbreviated name**: *Yatabe* \[standard form in IPNI: *Yatabe*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TI|TI]]; further material in [[Collection G|G]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection GH|GH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 664; Barnhart 3: 530 (d. 8 Aug 1899); BM 5: 2373; Bossert p. 446; CSP 19: 738; De Toni 4: lix; Hortus 3: 1207; IH 1 (ed. 6): 366, (ed. 7): 346; Morren ed. 10, p. 147; MW p. 543 (bibl.); NI 2189; Rehder 5: 936; TL-2/5673; Tucker 1: 756; Zander ed. 10, p. 734, ed. 11, p. 838. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 80: 320. 1899 (d.; drowned in the sea nr. Kamakura); Bot. Gaz. 29: 223. 1900 (d.); Bot. Mag. Tokyo 13 (154). 1899 (portr.); Bot. Not. 1900: 47 (d.); Hedwigia 38: (297). 1899 (1900) (d.); Japan biogr. enc. who's who ed. 3. 1911. 1964. - Burdet, H.M., Candollea 34: 213-214. 1979. - Huzimoto, H. et al., Science education in Japan 43. 1937. - Miyakí, K., Science ser. 2. 13: 734. 1901. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 182, *pl. 150.* 1905 (portr.). #### Composite works (I) "Supervisor", J. Matsumura, *Nippon Shokubutsameii* ed. 1, 1884, TL-2/5673. - (2) Collector, J. Müller Arg., *Lichenes Yatabeani*... \[Florence 1892\], Nuovo Giorn. bot. ital. 24: 189-202. 1892. #### Handwriting Candollea 34: 213-214. 1979. #### Eponymy *Yatabea* Maximowicz ex Yatabe (1891); *Yatabella* Okamura (1900). ### Publications ##### n.18.427. Iconographia florae japonicae **Title** *Iconographia florae japonicae*; or, descriptions with figures of plants indigenous to Japan... Tokyo (Z.P. Maruya & Co....) 1891-1893, 3 parts. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Iconogr. fl. jap.* **Notes** *1*(*1*): 1891 (p. \[iii\]: 20 Mar 1891; Bot. Centralbl. 19 Nov 1891), p. \[i\*-v\*\], err. slip, \[i\]-ii, \[1\]-66, *pl. 1-20* (uncol. liths.); J. Bot. Dec 1891; Bot. Zeit. 29 Dec 1891). *1*(*2*): 1892 (p. \[iii\]: 20 Mar 1891; Bot. Centralbl. 26 Jul 1892; Bot. Zeit. 20 Jul 1892; J. Bot. Aug 1892; Nat. Nov. Aug 1892), p. \[i\*\], \[i\] -iii, \[67\]-165, *pl. 21-40* (id.). *1*(*3*): 1893 (Bot. Centralbl. 21 Aug 1894 (as of 1893)), p. \[i\*j, \[i\]-iii, \[167\]-252, *pl. 41-60* (id.). *Copies*: BR, FH, G, HH, M, MO, NY. *Reprint 1*(*2*): 1906, as original, Tokyo & Osaka (The Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha...) 1906.