Markku Häkkinen
Markku Häkkinen (14 January 1946 – 5 December 2015) was a Finnish self-taught botanist, considered one of the world's leading experts on the taxonomy of bananas Forty-six out of the seventy known species of wild bananas have been described by Häkkinen.[1] The Linnaean Society of London awarded him the H. H. Bloomer Award of 2009.[2][3]
Häkkinen became interested in botany on his travels around the world during his career as a fully certificated sea captain. After retiring, he dedicated himself to botany. He has made 18 expeditions to Borneo, Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. He has published over 80 papers in international scientific journals.
The following Musa species have been named in honor of him: Musa haekkinenii,[4] Musa velutina subsp. markkuana. [5]and Musa markkui .
References
List of Markku Hakkinen's publications
- ^ "You searched on: Family = musaceae and Author standard form = hakkinen (including publishing authors, including basionym authors) and Ranks = all and Hybrids only = false, searching all records, sorting by name including family". Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ http://www.linnean.org/Resources/LinneanSociety/Documents/Publications/The-Linnaen/Lin%20Vol%2025_%20no%203_%20Oct%202009.pdf
- ^ Botanicum - Markku Häkkinen 14.1.1946 – 5.12.2015
- ^ http://www.promusa.org/tiki-index.php?page=Musa+haekkinenii
- ^ http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.92.2.3
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Häkkinen.
6. http://www.sbg.org.sg/research/publicationbulletin.asp?sRange=2010-2013&sYear=2013 2013 – Vol. 65(1): 19-26.
7. http://www.promusa.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=312
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