Vittorio Calestani

Italian botanist (1882–1949)
Vittorio Calestani
Born(1882-10-25)25 October 1882
Oneglia
Died1949 (aged 66–67)
Pisa
NationalityItalian
SpouseEmilia Mattioni
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Modena
Author abbrev. (botany)Calest.

Vittorio Emanuele Vincenzo Giuseppe Calestani (1882 – 1949) was an Italian botanist[1] at the University of Modena, whose work included a classification system for angiosperms.[2][3][4][5]

Selected publications

Books

  • Come si studiano le piante: manuale di botanica pratica (1932) Società Editrice "La Scuola", 733 pp.
  • Origini della razza italiana: fondamenti della politica razzista (1941) Vol. 26 de Manuali di politica internazionale. Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, 298 pp.
  • Natura in maschera: mimetismo e appariscenza negli animali e nelle piante (1947) Garzanti, 493 pp.

Other

  • Contributo alla sistematica della Ombrellifere D'Europa (1905) Pubblicazione U. Martelli "Webbia"
  • La vegetazione nei dintorni d' Orvieto (1907) Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. (14 ): 546-574
  • Mimetismo vegetale (1947) Natura in mascliera, Milano, Garzanti

See also Taxon. Lit., ed. 2 (TL2),[6] ICCU[7]

Legacy

Vittorio Calestani is the authority for 37 taxa, such as Arabis cardamine Calest.[8]

The standard author abbreviation Calest. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

  1. ^ HUH 2015.
  2. ^ Dahlgren & Clifford 1982, p. 5.
  3. ^ Calestani 1933.
  4. ^ Marriage record. Italy, Terni, Civil Registration, 1861-1921. FamilySearch
  5. ^ Birth record. Italy, Imperia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1785-1904. FamilySearch.
  6. ^ Stafleu & Cowan 1976.
  7. ^ ICCU 2010.
  8. ^ Tropicos 2015, Calestani, Vittorio.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Calest.

Bibliography

  • "Calestani, Vittorio". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists. 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  • Stafleu, Frans A.; Cowan, Richard S. (1976). "Calestani, Vittorio". Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Vol. 1. A–G (2nd ed.). Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema. p. 311. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  • Dahlgren, Rolf; Clifford, H. T. (1982). The monocotyledons: A comparative study. London and New York: Academic Press. ISBN 9780122006807.
  • Calestani, Vittorio (1933). "Le origini e la classificazione delle Angiosperme". Archo. Bot. Sist. Fito-Geogr. Genet. 9: 274–311.
  • "Calestani, Vittorio". Catalogo del servizio bibliotecario nazionale. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche. 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  • "Tropicos". Missouri Botanical Garden. 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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This is a selected list of the more influential systems. There are many other systems, for instance a review of earlier systems, published by Lindley in his 1853 edition, and Dahlgren (1982). Examples include the works of Scopoli, Ventenat, Batsch and Grisebach.
Pre-Linnaean
John Ray system (1686–1704)
  • A discourse on the seeds of plants
  • Methodus plantarum nova
  • De Variis Plantarum Methodis Dissertatio Brevis
  • Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta
Pre-Darwinian
Linnaean system (1735–51)
Adanson system (1763)
Familles naturelles des plantes
De Jussieu system (1789)
Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam
De Candolle system (1819–24)
Berchtold and Presl
system (1820–1823)
Agardh system (1825)
Classes Plantarum
Gray system (1821)
The Natural Arrangement of British Plants
Perleb system (1826)
Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs
Dumortier system (1829)
Analyse des familles des plantes
Lindley system (1830–45)
  • An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany
  • The Vegetable Kingdom
Don system (1834)
General History of Dichlamydious Plants.
Bentham & Hooker system
(1862–83)
Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita.
Baillon system (1867–94)
Histoire des plantes
Post-Darwinian (Phyletic)
Nineteenth century
Eichler system (1875–1886)
  • Blüthendiagramme: construirt und erläutert
  • Syllabus der Vorlesungen über Phanerogamenkunde
Engler system (1886–1924)
van Tieghem system (1891)
Traité de botanique
Twentieth century
Dalla Torre & Harms
system (1900–07)
Genera Siphonogamarum, ad systema Englerianum conscripta
Warming system (1912)
Haandbog i den systematiske botanik
Hallier system (1912)
L'origine et le système phylétique des angiospermes
Bessey system (1915)
The phylogenetic taxonomy of flowering plants
Wettstein system (1901–35)
Handbuch der systematischen Botanik
Lotsy system (1907–11)
Vorträge über botanische Stammesgeschichte, gehalten an der Reichsuniversität zu Leiden. Ein Lehrbuch der Pflanzensystematik.
Hutchinson system (1926–73)
The families of flowering plants, arranged according to a new system based on their probable phylogeny
Calestani system (1933)
Le origini e la classificazione delle Angiosperme
Kimura system (1956)
Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones
Emberger system (1960)
Traité de Botanique systématique
Melchior system (1964)
Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien
Takhtajan system (1966–97)
  • A system and phylogeny of the flowering plants
  • Flowering plants: origin and dispersal
  • Diversity and classification of flowering plants
Cronquist system (1968–81)
  • The evolution and classification of flowering plants
  • An integrated system of classification of flowering plants
Goldberg system (1986–89
Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons
Dahlgren system (1975–85)
The families of the monocotyledons: structure, evolution, and taxonomy
Thorne system (1968–2000)
An updated phylogenetic classification of the flowering plants
Kubitzki system (1990–)
The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
Reveal system (1997)
Reveal System of Angiosperm Classification
See also
Plantae at Wikispecies •


Authority control databases: Academics Edit this at Wikidata
  • International Plant Names Index


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