Klaus Kubitzki Explained

Klaus Kubitzki
Birth Date:	1933 5, df=y
Birth Place:	Niesky, Upper Lusatia
Death Place:	Hamburg
Nationality:	German
Workplaces:	University of Hamburg
Alma Mater:	Kiel University
Known For:	Kubitzki system
Author Abbrev Bot:	Kubitzki

Klaus Kubitzki (3 May 1933 – 5 December 2022) was a German botanist. He was 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 was a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.^[3]

Career

Kubitzki was born in Niesky, Germany and studied biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck, Göttingen 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 Münster (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]

Kubitzki died on 5 December 2022, near Hamburg aged 89.^[5]

Work

Kubitzki'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-).^[4]

Selected publications

. 1982a. Lorenthaceae. Volumes 2 & 4 of Flora de Venezuela. Inst. Botanico
. 1982b. Lauraceae I (Aniba & Aiouea). No. 31 of Flora neotropica monograph. Volume 1 de Lauraceae. New York Botanical Garden, 125 pp.
Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Flowering Plants : Evolution and classification of higher categories. Symposium, Hamburg, September 8–12, 1976. Plant Systematics & Evolution - Supplementum 1. 1977. Springer. Wien. 978-3-211-81434-5. 416. 13 August 2015.

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

1.Book: Pteridophytes and gymnosperms . Kramer . K.U. . Green . P. . 1 . 1990 . 3-540-51794-4.
2. Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Rohwer. Jens G.. Bittrich. Volker. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. II Flowering plants - Dicotyledons. Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid families. 1993. Springer. Berlin. 3-540-55509-9.
3. Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Huber. Herbert. Klaus Kubitzki. Herbert Huber (botanist). The families and genera of vascular plants . 3 . Flowering plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae) . 1998. Springer-Verlag. Berlin . 3-540-64060-6.
4. Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Klaus Kubitzki . The families and genera of vascular plants . IV . Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae). 1998. Springer Science & Business Media. Berlin Heidelberg. 978-3-662-03531-3. 10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3. 39472817.
5. Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Bayer. Clemens. Klaus Kubitzki . The families and genera of vascular plants . 5 . Flowering plants. Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. 2003. Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Germany. 978-3-662-07255-4.
6. Book: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Kubitzki . K. . VI. 2004 . Springer-Verlag. 978-3-662-07257-8. 10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8. 12809916 .
7. Book: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae) . Kadereit . Joachim W. . 2004 . 3-540-40593-3.
8. Book: Asterales . Kadereit . Joachim W. . Jeffrey . Charles . The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Klaus Kubitzki (ed.). VIII: Eudicots. 2007 . 978-3-540-31051-8. Springer-Verlag. Berlin.
9. Book: Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales p.p., Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales p.p., Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picramniaceae, Sabiaceae . Kubitzki . Klaus . 2007 . 978-3-540-32214-6.
10. Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Klaus Kubitzki . The families and genera of vascular plants . X . Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae. 2011. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-642-14397-7.
11. Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Flowering Plants. 11 Eudicots: Malpighiales. 2013. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-642-39417-1.
12. Book: Santalales, Balanophorales . Kuijt . Job . Hansen . Bertel . 2015 . 978-3-319-09296-6.
13. Book: Poaceae . Kellogg . Elizabeth A. . 2015 . 978-3-319-15331-5.
14. Book: Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae . Kadereit. Joachim W. . Bittrich. Volker . 2016 . 978-3-319-28534-4.

Eponyms

Genus

(Lauraceae) Kubitzkia van der Werff^[6]

Species

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

References

Sources

Simpson, DP. 1979. Cassell's Latin Dictionary. 5, London: Cassell Ltd., 883. .

Notes and References

Web site: UNI HH FB14 - BzF - Klaus Kubitzki . 12 October 2008 . 27 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081012234417/http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/fb5a051/fb5a051.htm . 12 October 2008 . dead.
. 1990. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Springer-Verlag: Berlín, Heidelberg, Alemania
Web site: Membership Directory - KLAUS KUBITZKI | American Society of Plant Taxonomists. members.aspt.net. 27 December 2021.
Web site: Kubitzki, Klaus (1933-) on JSTOR. plants.jstor.org. 27 December 2021.
Web site: Susanne S. Renner . Hans-Helmut Poppendieck . Joachim W. Kadereit . Jens G. Rohwer . In memoriam Klaus Kubitzki (1933–2022) . Wiley Online Library . John Wiley & Sons, Ltd . 10 July 2023 . taxon . 466–467 . 10.1002/tax.12895 . 1 April 2023.
Taxon 35(1): 165 (1986), nom. nov. (IK)
Phytologia 48(3): 224 1981 (IK)
Brittonia 50(1): 51 1998 (IK)