Classes Plantarum

Title page of Linnaeus’s Classes Plantarum of 1838.

Classes Plantarum ("Classes of plants", Leiden, Oct. 1738) was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). The book is an elaboration of aphorisms 53–77 of his Fundamenta Botanica and a complementary volume to his Species Plantarum, Genera Plantarum, Critica Botanica, and Philosophia Botanica.

Bibliographic details

Full bibliographic details including exact dates of publication, pagination, editions, facsimiles, brief outline of contents, location of copies, secondary sources, translations, reprints, manuscripts, travelogues, and commentaries are given in Stafleu and Cowan's Taxonomic Literature.^[1]

See also

Critica Botanica
Fundamenta Botanica
Species Plantarum
Genera Plantarum
Philosophia Botanica
Systema Naturae
Carl Linnaeus

References

1. ^ Stafleu & Cowan, p. 81.

Bibliography

• Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S. 1981. "Taxonomic Literature. A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications with dates, Commentaries and Types. Vol III: Lh–O." Regnum Vegetabile 105.
• Linnaeus, Carl 1738. Classes Plantarum. Leiden: Conrad Wishoff.