Cleofé Calderón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cleofé Calderón

botanist

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1929

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 19-Mar-2007

Profession: botanist, agrostologist

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Cleofé Elsa Calderón (October 26, 1929 – March 19, 2007) was an Argentine botanist. In 1976, Calderón rediscovered Anomochloa in Bahia, Brazil, with the help of assistant Talmon Soares dos Santos.
By identifying this tropical forest grass, Calderón provided specimens for detailed morphological and anatomical study that confirmed it as a grass.In October 1971, Calderón performed field operations and collected living materials of a new genus of grasses; the genus was named after her: Calderonella.