Chōzaburō Tanaka


Chōzaburō Tanaka or often Romanized as Tyôzaburô Tanaka was a Japanese botanist and mycologist. He established one of the two major taxonomic classification systems for citrus and related genera currently in use, and is now considered to be a taxonomic "splitter". He is the author of 180 botanical names in the citrus family Rutaceae, including for example Citrus × latifolia and Citrus tangerina. Many of the species Tanaka described are still recognized, but his overall scheme is not supported by modern genetic research.

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