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Wu Zhengyi, a master in science and a giant in botany, was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China 100 years ago and passed away on June 20, 2013 in Kunming, China. He was an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor and Director Emeritus of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and first editor-in-chief of Plant Diversity (formerly Acta Botanica Yunnanica) (see Fig. 1). Wu developed an early interest in Botany at home in his garden. His father left the office and brought home numerous books from Beijing for his eight-year-old son. Wu had the opportunity to read these books. He was especially interested in two on the subject of botany: one, called the Chinese Botanical Illustrated Book (I植物名 实图考J), was written by the Qing dynasty botanist Wu Qi-yong, and the other was the Japanese Botanical Illustrated Book. Based on the pictures in these books, he tried to identify the plants in his family's garden (Wu, 2014). Whilst at middle school Wu was lucky to meet two teachers who taught him biology. Mr. Tang Shou, his primary middle school botany teacher, took him out in the field and taught him to recognise plants and to collect plant specimens. By the time he reached high school, Wu had already collected and identified 200 specimens. When his high school biology teacher, Mr. Tang Yao, discovered this, he held an exhibition in the class forWu.Wuwas profoundly inspired by his teachers and decided on a career as a botanist. In 1933, Wu entered Tsinghua University in Beijing and received his BA in Biology in 1937. After leaving university Wu started his scientific career, which spanned over 70 years. He made outstanding contributions introducing botany to China and internationalising Chinese botany in the botanical domain around the world (Peng et al., 2013). Many papers have been written addressing Wu's contributions in science (Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, 2014; Raven, 2016). Here, our aim is to emphasise his contributions to plant taxonomy and phytogeography. China is home to more than 32,500 species of vascular plants, over 50% of them endemic, slightly less than 10% of the world's total number of vascular plants (Blackmore et al., 2013; Turkington and Harrower, 2016). Because of the huge number of species, the rich diversity and poorly established academic community in China at the time, it became a very difficult task to compile the Flora Republicae Popularis Sincae (FRPS), which was started in 1958 but only completed in 2004. Wu became the fourth editor-in-chief of the Editorial Committee of FRPS in 1987, and 82 books making up 54 volumes were

Wu Zhengyi and his contributions to plant taxonomy and phytogeography