{{Short description|Japanese botanist and pteridologist}} {{Refimprove|biography|date=April 2012}} {{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 plant]]s, from central Asia, belonging to the family [[Apiaceae]], as ''[[Kitagawia]]'' in his honour.<ref >{{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}}</ref>
{{botanist|Kitag.|Kitagawa, Masao}}
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