Hu Xiansu
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Hu Xiansu
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Hu Xiansu or Hu Hsen-Hsu, courtesy name Buzeng, was a Chinese botanist, scholar, literary critic and educator. He was the founder of plant taxonomy in China and a pioneer of modern botany and paleobotany research in the country. One of his most notable achievements as a botanist was the identification of the living fossil Metasequoia glyptostroboides in the 1940s, which previously thought to have been extinct for over 150 million years. This has been considered by some in the scientific communit
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Chinese botanist, literary critic and educator (1894–1968)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Xiansu
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2008-05-24T17:25:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T11:56:17Z
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