Te-tsun Yu
{{Short description|Chinese botanist (1908–1986)}}
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Te-tsun Yu (1908–1986) was a Chinese botanist who specialised in spermatophytes, particularly in the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of China.
Education
Yu majored in botany at Beijing Normal University.{{cite book |editor-last1=Wu |editor-first1=Zhengyi |editor-last2=Raven |editor-first2=Peter H. |editor-last3=Hong |editor-first3=Deyuan |last1=Lingdi |first1=Lu |last2=Spongberg |first2=Stephen A. |year=2003 |title=Flora of China: Pittosporaceae through Connaraceae |series=Flora of China |publisher=Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press |volume=9 |page=xi |isbn=1-930723-14-8}} He was a student of Hu Xiansu.{{cite web |url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000326258 |website=JSTOR Global Plants |publisher=JSTOR |date=April 19, 2013 |title=Yu, Te-Tsun (1908-1986) |access-date=7 February 2024}}
Career
Yu was a co-founder of the Kunming Institute of Botany. He worked as editor of the Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae and director of the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was a prolific collector of plant specimens in Yunnan, making expeditions into the largely unexplored mountains in the north west of the province. Thousands of specimens he collected were exported to Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh who funded the expeditions in 1937.
In 1979 he toured the United States as part of a delegation from the Botanical Society of the People's Republic of China in reciprocal arrangements with the Botanical Society of America. This collaboration led to the Flora of China Project which started shortly after Yu's death and was first published in 1994.{{cite web|url=https://botany.org/psbarchive/issue/1979-v25-no-3.html#US|publisher=Botanical Society of America|volume=25 |issue=3|date=September 1979|editor=Richard Klein|title=Botanists from the People's Republic of China Visit the United States}}
He compiled "The Botanical Gardens of China" (Published: 1983 by Science Press, Beijing, {{ISBN|9780945345084}}) which contains many colour photographs and maps of each botanical garden.
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External links
- http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/index.html Flora of China Project
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Category:20th-century Chinese botanists
Category:Beijing Normal University alumni
Category:Biologists from Beijing
Category:Members of the Jiusan Society
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