title: Yojiro Kimura
text: # 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
  
  