Abbé Jean Michel Gandoger (10 May 1850 – 4 October 1926), was a French
botanist
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and
mycologist. He was born in
Arnas, the son of a wealthy vineyard owner in the
Beaujolais
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region. Although he took holy orders at the age of 26, he devoted his life to the study of
botany
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, specializing in the
genus
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''. He travelled throughout the Mediterranean, notably
Crete
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Spain
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Portugal
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Algeria
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, amassing a herbarium of over 800,000 specimens, now kept at the
Jardin botanique de Lyon
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. However, he is notorious for having published thousands of plant species that are no longer accepted. He died at Arnas in 1926.
Father J B Charbonnel published an obituary in the Bulletin de la
Societe botanique de France (1927, Vol. 74, 3–11), listing Gandoger's many publications. Plants with the specific epithet of ''gandogeri'' are named after him,
2012 Smithsonian
Brachypodium gandogeri Hack. ex Gand. an example being ''Carex gandogeri
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''.
Publications
* ''Flore lyonnaise et des départements du sud-est, comprenant l'analyse des plantes spontanées et des plantes cultivées comme industrielles ou ornementales'' (1875)
* ''Revue du genre Polygonum'' (1882)
* ''Flora europaea'' (1883-1891, 27 volumes)
* ''Herborisations dans les Pyrénées'' (1884)
* ''Monographie mondiale des Crucifères'' (3 volumes)
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1850 births
1926 deaths
19th-century French botanists
French mycologists
People from Rhône (department)
20th-century French botanists
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