Noun
French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)
Source: WordNetAdanson (1763), de Jussieu (1789), and Candolle (1819) all proposed various alternative natural systems of classification that grouped plants using a wider range of shared characters and were widely followed. Source: Internet
But one of the commissioners, the botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu took exception to the official reports. Source: Internet
The name may have been used informally to refer to the plants before Linnaean times, and simply been formalised when Linnaeus described Erica in 1753, and then again when Jussieu described the Ericaceae in 1789. Source: Internet
Later came systems based on a more complete consideration of the characteristics of taxa, referred to as "natural systems", such as those of de Jussieu (1789), de Candolle (1813) and Bentham and Hooker (1862–1863). Source: Internet
De Jussieu accompanied de la Condamine on the latter's expedition to Peru. 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