Cleofé Elsa Calderón (October 26, 1929 – March 19, 2007) was an Argentine agrostologist.

Career

She studied at the

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, with Lorenzo Parodi. In October 1971, Calderón performed field operations and collected living materials of a new genus of grasses; the genus was named after her: ''

Calderonella ''Zeugites sylvaticus'' is a species of perennial bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a ...

''. In 1976, Calderón rediscovered '' Anomochloa'' in

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, Brazil, with the help of assistant Talmon Soares dos Santos. By identifying this tropical forest grass, Calderón provided specimens for detailed morphological and anatomical study that confirmed it as a grass.

Selected works

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