Cleofé E. Calderón

Cleofé Elsa Calderón
Cleofé E. Calderón and Thomas R. Soderstrom examining bamboo samples in 1977.
Born	(1929-10-26)26 October 1929 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	March 19, 2007(2007-03-19) (aged 77) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Scientific career
Fields	Agrostology
Institutions	National Museum of Natural History (US National Herbarium)
Author abbrev. (botany)	C.E.Calderón

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.