Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

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French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)

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But one of the commissioners, the botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu took exception to the official reports. Source: Internet

In 1789, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu classified all climbing aroids as Pothos and all terrestrial aroids as either Arum or Dracontium in his book Familles des Plantes. Source: Internet

Later botanists, such as Philip Miller in 1754, divided cacti into several genera, which, in 1789, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu placed in his newly created family Cactaceae. Source: Internet

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