Vittorio Emanuele Vincenzo Giuseppe Calestani (1882 – 1949) was an Italian

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

at the University of Modena, whose work included a classification system for

angiosperms Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit. T ...

.Birth record. Italy, Imperia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1785-1904. FamilySearch.

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)'', ICCU

Legacy

Vittorio Calestani is the authority for 37 taxa, such as '' Arabis cardamine'' Calest.

References

Bibliography

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