王文采院士是著名的传统植物分类学家。他主要研究毛茛科、苦苣苔科、紫草科、荨麻科等的分类和系统学,新发现了20个属,约500个新种,修订了毛茛科翠雀属、唐松草属、铁线莲属等多个属的分类系统;同时在对苦苣苔科的分类和系统学研究中,揭示了科的演化趋势,建立了后蕊苣苔属、吊石苣苔属和小花苣苔属的分类系统。我和他的相知相识就缘自“植物分类”这个专业媒介。事情可以追溯到1961年,那 Academician Wang Wencai is a famous traditional taxonomic scientist. He mainly studied the taxonomy and systematics of Ranunculaceae, Gracilocaceae, Boraginaceae, Urticaceae and so on. He has newly discovered 20 genera and about 500 new species, revised the genera of Ranunculaceae, Thalictrum, Clematis and other genus classification system; at the same time in the classification and phylogenetic studies of Gesneriaceae, revealing the evolution of the division, the establishment of the genus Bacchus, Pendula genus and Picchia The genus Taxonomy. I know him and his acquaintance originated from “plant classification ” the professional media. Things can be traced back to 1961, that