Klaus Kubitzki

Klaus Kubitzki (born 1933) is a German botanist. He is an Emeritus professor in the University of Hamburg, at the Herbarium Hamburgense. He is known for his work on the systematics and biogeography of the angiosperms, particularly those of the Neotropics, and also the floristic record of the Tertiary era.^[1] His plant systematic work is referred to as the Kubitzki system.^[2] He is a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.^[3]

Career

Born in Niesky, Oberlausitz, he undertook studies in biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck, Goettingen and Kiel. His doctoral work at Kiel was in Quaternary studies (1960). He then became associate professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, southern Chile (1961–1963). He pursued further studies at University of Muenster (1968), from where he proceeded to a position as lecturer at the University of Munich till 1973, and then as professor of systematic botany at the University of Hamburg (1973 to 1998). ^[4]

Work

Kubitzky's contributions have included taxonomy, plant geography and geoecology. He made a special study of the Guayana Highland. His taxonomic work is contained in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (1990-).^[5]

Selected publications

• carlos toledo Rizzini, klaus Kubitzki, ghillean t. Prance. 1982a. Lorenthaceae. Volumes 2 & 4 of Flora de Venezuela. Inst. Botanico
• klaus Kubitzki, susanne Renner. 1982b. Lauraceae I (Aniba & Aiouea). No. 31 of Flora neotropica monograph. Volume 1 de Lauraceae. New York Botanical Garden, 125 pp. ISBN 0893272442
• bronwen Gates, klaus Kubitzki, leslie r. Landrum, terence d. Pennington, hans-helmut Poppendieck, susanne s. Renner, rolf Singer. 1981. 27. Cochlospermaceae. Organization for Flora Neotropica. New York Botanical Garden, ISBN 0893272450
• Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (1977). Flowering Plants : Evolution and classification of higher categories. Symposium, Hamburg, September 8–12, 1976. Plant Systematics & Evolution - Supplementum 1. Wien: Springer. p. 416. ISBN 9783211814345. Retrieved 13 August 2015. 

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (Springer-Verlag, Berlin)

• 1. Kramer, K.U., Green, P. Pteridophytes and gymnosperms. 1990. 404 pp. ISBN 3540517944
• 2. Kubitzki, Klaus, Rohwer, Jens G., Bittrich, Volker. Magnoliid, hamamelid, and caryophyllid families. 1993. ISBN 3540555099
• 3. Kubitzki, Klaus; Huber, Herbert, eds. (1998). The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol. 3. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-64060-6. Retrieved 14 January 2014. 
• 4. Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (1998). The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol. 4. Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae). Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-662-03531-3. 
• 5. Kubitzki, Klaus; Bayer, Clemens, eds. (2003). The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol.5. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-07255-4. Retrieved 14 January 2016. 
• 6. Kubitzky, K. Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. 2004 ISBN 978-3-662-07257-8
• 7. Kadereit, Joachim W. Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). 2004. ISBN 3540405933
• 8. Kadereit, Joachim W., Jeffrey, Charles. Asterales. 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-31051-8
• 9. Kubitzki, Klaus. Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales p.p., Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales p.p., Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picramniaceae, Sabiaceae. 2007. ISBN 3540322140
• 10. Kubitzki, Klaus. Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae. 2011. 436 pp. ISBN 3642143962
• 11. Kubitzky, K. Malpighiales. 2014. ISBN 978-3-642-39417-1
• 12. Kuijt, Job, Hansen, Bertel. Santalales, Balanophorales. 2015 ISBN 978-3-319-09296-6
• 13. Kellogg, Elizabeth A. Poaceae. 2015 ISBN 978-3-319-15331-5

Eponyms

Genus

• (Lauraceae) Kubitzkia van der Werff^[6]

Species

• (Asteraceae) Mikania kubitzkii R.M.King & H.Rob.^[7]
• (Dilleniaceae) Davilla kubitzkii Aymard^[8]

See also

• Kubitzki system

References

Bibliography

• Simpson, DP. 1979. Cassell's Latin Dictionary. 5, London: Cassell Ltd., 883. ISBN 0-304-52257-0.