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 plants, from central Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae, as Kitagawia in his honour.[1]

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  1. ^ "Kitagawia Pimenov | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Kitag.