Klaus Kubitzki

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Klaus Kubitzki (born May 3, 1933 in Niesky ) is a German botanist . He is a professor emeritus at the University of Hamburg . He is known for his work on the systematics and biogeography of the bedecktsamer , especially those of the neotropics , as well as the recording of the flora of the Tertiary . The result of his plant systematic work is called the Kubitzki system . He is a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Kubitzki ".

Career

Kubitzki studied biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck , Göttingen and Kiel . His dissertation in Kiel dealt with the Quaternary (1960). He was then from 1961 to 1963 private lecturer at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia , Chile, from 1963 to 1967 private lecturer at the University of Münster and then until 1973 lecturer at the University of Munich . He then worked as a professor for systematic botany at the University of Hamburg (retired in 1998). Until 2000 he headed the Herbarium Hamburgense.

job

Kubitzki's contributions deal with areas such as taxonomy , plant geography and geoecology . He made a technical study on the highlands of Guyana . He is the author and editor of numerous books on systematic botany and the author of over 100 articles in scientific journals. His taxonomic work is a central part of The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (1990–).

Some plant names were dedicated to him:
Lauraceae : genus Kubitzkia van der Werff
Asteraceae : Mikania kubitzkii RMKing & H.Rob.
Asteraceae: Unxia kubitzkii H.Rob.
Dilleniaceae : Davilla kubitzkii Aymard

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Uni Hamburg Klaus Kubitzki ( Memento from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ ASPT Klaus Kubitzki
  3. Uni HH: Reports and opinions from the University of Hamburg Vol. 31, No. 4 (2000), p. 55
  4. ^ Kubitzki, K. Amazon Lowland and Guayana Highland, Historical and ecological aspects of their floristic development Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. 17 (65): 271–276, 1989 ( memento of the original dated December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.accefyn.org.co
  5. Klaus Kubitzki (ed.). since 1990. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany.
  6. van der Werff, H. Kubitzkia van der Werff, a new name for a genus of Neotropical Lauraceae in Taxon 35 (1), 164-166, 1986, nom. nov.
  7. ^ King, RM, Robinson, HE Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). CCV. Two new species of Mikania from Brazil in: Phytologia 48 (3), 223-228, 1981
  8. Lorenzi, H. Plantas ornamentais do Brasil: arbustivas, herbáceas e trepadeiras , Instituto Plantarum Nova Odessa, 2001
  9. Jump up ↑ Aymard, GAC Dilleniaceae Novae Neotropicae VIII. Two New Species of Davilla from Brazil in: Brittonia 50 (1), 51-55, 1998