Hiroshi Hara (botanist)

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{{nihongo|Hiroshi Hara|原 寛|Hara Hiroshi|extra=January 5, 1911 – September 24, 1986}} was a Japanese botanist.

Hara was born 1911 in Nagano. He studied at The University of Tokyo and became a professor there in 1957.{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%8E%9F%E5%AF%9B-1102669|title=原寛|work=Kotobank|access-date=2022-02-09|language=Japanese}} Between 1968 and 1971 he was the director of the newly established University Museum of The University of Tokyo. Hara specialized in mosses, but described other plants as well.{{cite web|title=Hara, Hiroshi | url=http://www.tropicos.org/Person/10842|website=tropicos.org |accessdate=22 July 2014}}

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