Shigeo Kurata

Shigeo Kurata (倉田 重夫, Kurata Shigeo) is a Japanese botanist and Nepenthes taxonomist whose work in the 1960s and 1970s contributed much to the current popularity of these plants.^[1][2] His best-known work is the 1976 guide Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu.^[3] Nepenthes kurata was named in his honour.^[2]

Kurata has described a number of new Nepenthes species, including N. campanulata,^[4] N. eymae,^[5] N. mindanaoensis,^[6] N. peltata,^[7] N. rhombicaulis,^[4] and N. saranganiensis.^[8] He also described N. pyriformis,^[6] which was subsequently recognised as a natural hybrid by Charles Clarke.^[9] Other natural hybrids named by Kurata include N. × ferrugineomarginata, N. × kinabaluensis, and N. × kuchingensis.