Yojiro Kimura
# Yojiro Kimura

Yojiro Kimura (木村 陽二郎, Kimura Yōjirō, 1912–2006) was a Japanese botanist, known for his classification of monocotyledons, and of Japanese species of Hypericum.

## Selected publications

* Kimura, Y. 1953. The system and phylogenetic tree of plants. J. Jpn. Bot. 28: 97–104.
* Kimura, Y. 1956. Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones. Notulae Systematicae, Herbier du Muséum de Paris 15:137–159.
* Kimura, Y. "Shokubutsu bunrui taikei no rekishi" [The History of Botanical Classification Systems] in "Seibutsugakushi ronshu" [Essays on The History of Biology]), (Yasaka Shobo, 1987).
* Kimura, Y. "Natsurarisuto no keifu", (Chuou Kouron Sha, Inc., 1983)

## Legacy

Yojiro Kimura is the authority for 58 taxa, such as Hypericum hayatae Y.Kimura

