Philipp Franz von Siebold
"Actinidia arguta" was first described by Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini in 1843 as "Trochostigma argutum". It was then moved to the genus "Actinidia" in 1867 by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel after the invalidly published suggestion by Jules Émile Planchon to move the species.