De Jussieu system
An early system of plant taxonomy, the de Jussieu System, is of great importance as a starting point of botanical nomenclature at the rank of family, together with Michel Adanson's Familles naturelles des plantes (1763). While Adanson introduced the concept of families, Jussieu arranged them hierarchically into Divisions, Classes and Orders (equivalent to families).
- Index: Page lxiii
- Overview: Page lxxi - Divisions and classes
- Overview: Page lxii - Classes and orders
The main groups recognized are:
- I. Acotyledones (page 1)
- Classes: 1, with as families: Fungi, Algae, Hepaticae, Musci, Filices, Najades
- II. Monocotyledones (page 21)
- Classes: 2-4
- 2: Stamina hypogyna (page 23)
- 3: Stamina perigyna (page 35)
- 4: Stamina epigyna (page 60)
- III. Dicotyledones
- A. Monoclinae
- a) Apetalae
- Classes: 5-7
- b) Monopetalae
- Classes: 8-11
- c) Polypetalae
- Classes: 12-14
- B. Diclinae
- Classes: 15
The system was published in 1789.[1]
- (also available online at Gallica)
References
- ↑ Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de (1789). Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam. Paris. OCLC 5161409. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
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