Werner Rodolfo Greuter (born 27 February 1938 in Genoa, Italy, as a Swiss national) is a botanist.
His proposed policy as regards registration of botanical names proved unpopular and in 1999 he stepped back, not being elected anew: he completed his term as chair to be succeeded at Vienna in 2005.
[1] Greuter went to schools in Bellinzona and Winterthur, and received his PhD from the University of Zürich in 1972.
[citation needed] He was appointed on 1 April 1978 to his current position: Professor of biology in the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and First Director of the University's Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) in Berlin.
As well as Greuteria, which is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae and published in 2013.