Klaus Kubitzki
Klaus Kubitzki | |
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Born | 1933 Niesky, Oberlausitz |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Kiel University |
Known for | Kubitzki system |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | University of Hamburg |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Kubitzki |
Klaus Kubitzki (born 1933) is a German botanist. He is an Emeritus professor in the University of Hamburg, at the . 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 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]
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., eds. (1990). Pteridophytes and gymnosperms. 1. ISBN 3540517944.
- 2. Kubitzki, Klaus; Rohwer, Jens G.; Bittrich, Volker, eds. (1993). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. II Flowering plants - Dicotyledons. Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid families. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3540555099.
- 3. Kubitzki, Klaus; Huber, Herbert, eds. (1998). Flowering plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae). The families and genera of vascular plants. 3. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-64060-6.
- 4. Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (1998). Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae). The families and genera of vascular plants. IV. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Science & Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3. ISBN 978-3-662-03531-3. S2CID 39472817.
- 5. Kubitzki, Klaus; Bayer, Clemens, eds. (2003). Flowering plants. Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. The families and genera of vascular plants. 5. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-07255-4.
- 6. Kubitzky, K., ed. (2004). Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. VI. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8. ISBN 978-3-662-07257-8.
- 7. Kadereit, Joachim W., ed. (2004). Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). ISBN 3540405933.
- 8. Kadereit, Joachim W.; Jeffrey, Charles, eds. (2007). Asterales. ISBN 978-3-540-31051-8.
- 9. Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (2007). Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales p.p., Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales p.p., Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picramniaceae, Sabiaceae. ISBN 978-3540322146.
- 10. Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (2011). Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae. The families and genera of vascular plants. X. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-642-14397-7.
- 11. Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (2013). Flowering Plants. 11 Eudicots: Malpighiales. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-642-39417-1.(Also preview at Springer)
- 12. Kuijt, Job; Hansen, Bertel, eds. (2015). Santalales, Balanophorales. ISBN 978-3-319-09296-6.
- 13. Kellogg, Elizabeth A., ed. (2015). Poaceae. ISBN 978-3-319-15331-5.
- 14. Kadereit, Joachim W.; Bittrich, Volker, eds. (2016). Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae. ISBN 978-3-319-28534-4.
Eponyms[]
- (Lauraceae) Kubitzkia van der Werff[6]
- (Asteraceae) Mikania kubitzkii & H.Rob.[7]
- (Dilleniaceae) Davilla kubitzkii [8]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ University of Hamburg -Klaus Kubitzki
- ^ klaus Kubitzki (ed.). 1990. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Springer-Verlag: Berlín, Heidelberg, Alemania
- ^ ASPT: Klaus Kubitzki
- ^ JStor Global Plants: Klaus Kubitzki
- ^ JStor Global Plants: Klaus Kubitzki
- ^ Taxon 35(1): 165 (1986), nom. nov. (IK)
- ^ Phytologia 48(3): 224 1981 (IK)
- ^ Brittonia 50(1): 51 1998 (IK)
- ^ IPNI. Kubitzki.
Bibliography[]
- Simpson, DP. 1979. Cassell's Latin Dictionary. 5, London: Cassell Ltd., 883. ISBN 0-304-52257-0.
- German taxonomists
- 1933 births
- Living people
- 20th-century German botanists
- 21st-century German botanists
- 20th-century German scientists
- 21st-century German scientists