The
Kubitzki system is a
system of plant taxonomy devised by
Klaus Kubitzki, and is the product of an ongoing survey of
vascular plants, entitled
The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, and extending to 13 volumes in 2015. The survey, in the form of an
encyclopedia, is important as a comprehensive, multivolume
treatment of the vascular plants, with
keys to and descriptions of all
families and
genera, mostly by specialists in those groups. The Kubitzki system served as the basis for
classification in
Mabberley's Plant-Book, a
dictionary of the vascular plants.
Mabberley states, in his Introduction on page xi of the 2008 edition, that the Kubitzki system "has remained the standard to which other literature is compared".