Masao Kitagawa

{{Short description|Japanese botanist and pteridologist}}

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{{Nihongo|Masao Kitagawa|北川 政夫|Kitagawa Masao|1910–1995}} was a Japanese botanist and pteridologist. He spent most of his academic career at Yokohama National University.

In 1986, a Russian botanist Michael Georgievich Pimenov published a genus of flowering plants, from central Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae, as Kitagawia in his honour.{{cite web |title=Kitagawia Pimenov {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:924969-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}}

{{botanist|Kitag.|Kitagawa, Masao}}