Vittorio Calestani
Born	(1882-10-25)25 October 1882 Oneglia
Died	1949 (aged 66–67) Pisa
Nationality	Italian
Spouse	Emilia Mattioni
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Institutions	University 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

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.

List of systems of plant taxonomy

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)	Systema Naturae Species Plantarum Genera Plantarum Philosophia Botanica
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)	Théorie élémentaire de la botanique, ou exposition des principes de la classification naturelle et de l'art de décrire et d'etudier les végétaux Prodromus systemati naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta
Berchtold and Presl system (1820–1823)	O Prirozenosti Rostlin
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)	Führer durch den Königlich botanischen Garten der Universität zu Breslau Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien Das Pflanzenreich
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

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group System (1998–)

See also: Plantae at Wikispecies •