An early
system of plant taxonomy developed by
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748 – 1836), the de Jussieu System' (1789), is of great importance as a starting point for
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), in his seminal Genera plantarum.[1]
After the publication of Genera plantarum Jussieu published many memoirs further developing the description and
circumscription of families. His final sysyem was published posthumously in 1837, a year after his death.[2]
Organization
Index: Structured p. lxiii,[3] Alphabetical p. 454[4]
This is a selected list of the more influential systems. There are many other systems, for instance a review of earlier systems, published by
Lindley in his 1853 edition, and
Dahlgren (1982). Examples include the works of
Scopoli,
Ventenat,
Batsch and
Grisebach.
Prodromus systemati naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta