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Klaus Kubitzki (general editor). 1990 onward. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany.

Gerhard Wagenitz is a German botanist that was born on May 31, 1927 in Potsdam.

Biography
Wagenitz studied biology, chemistry and physics in Berlin and Göttingen. In 1955 he received his doctorate under Franz Firbas (1902-1964). He got in 1956 a scholarship at the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, and in the same year he became an assistant at the Institute of Systematic Botany and Plant Geography of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). He was from 1958 to 1969 worked as a curator of the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.

Wagenitz habilitated 1962 botany at the University of Berlin. From 1969 to 1993 he was Professor at the Department of Plant Systematics at Systematic Geobotanical Institute of the University of Göttingen.

His main areas of interest are Botanical Nomenclature (Angiosperms flowering plants, especially Asteraceae) and history of botany.

Gerhard Wagenitz is an honorary member of the German botanical society.