Eizi Matuda

Bust of Eizi Matuda in the Cosmovitral Botanical Garden in Toluca , Mexico

Eizi Matuda ( Japanese 松田英二 , Matsuda Eiji ), born April 20, 1894 in Nagasaki ; † February 12, 1978 in Lima ( Peru ), was a Mexican botanist of Japanese descent. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Matuda ".

Life

Matuda was the son of Hanjirō and Ōtsuna Matsuda. He studied at the University of Taipei and was professor of botany from 1914 to 1922 in Taiwan, which was then annexed by Japan . In 1922 he founded his own farm in Escuintla in the Mexican state of Chiapas . In 1932 he founded the Instituto botánico Matuda in Escuintla . From 1951 he was visiting professor and curator at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . From 1954 to 1959 he was chief botanist at the Instituto de investigación forestal (Forest Science Institute), from 1955 to 1965 then head of the botanical department. In 1953 he received an honorary degree from the Sociedad forestal de México (Mexican Forestry Society) and belonged to a number of scientific societies such as the Sociedad botánica de México (Mexican Botanical Society). In particular, he wrote the monographs Mexican Aroids (1954), Mexican Dioscoreae (1953), Mexican Commelinae (1955), Helechos de Estado de México ("Ferns of the State of México ", 1956) and numerous articles. 1960 Matuda received the honorary doctorate would the University of Tokyo .

Matuda collected plants in Mexico , China and Belize .

Initial descriptions and dedication names

Matuda described a number of new types of flamingo flowers , philodendrons , window leaves , day flowers , etc., which, however, were hardly known beyond their homeland, since these groups of plants (in contrast to orchids and succulents ) are more useful plants than collectors' items. Some of them are also no longer recognized as species .

The plant genera Matudaea Lundell from the witch hazel family (Hamamelidaceae), Eizia Standl. from the family of the redness plants (Rubiaceae), Matudacalamus F.Maek. from the family of grasses (Poaceae), Matudanthus D.R.Hunt from the family of commelinaceae (Commelinaceae) and Matudina R.M.King & H.Rob. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) are named after him. In addition, a number of plant species were named in honor of Matuda by other botanists, e. B. Aechmea matudae , Mammillaria matudae , Pitcairnia matudae , Thelocactus tulensis ssp. matudae and Tillandsia matudae .

literature

Allen G. Debus (dir.): World Who's Who in Science. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present . Marquis-Who's Who, Chicago 1968.

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Eizi Matuda at the IPNI
Harvard University Herbaria (HUH), Botanists Database .

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Matuda, Eizi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Matsuda, Eiji
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nagasaki
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1978
Place of death	Lima

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

[2] Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .