Michel Gandoger

Abbott Jean Michel Gandoger (10 May 1850–4 October 1926), was a French botanist and mycologist.^[1]. Gandoger was born in Arnas, the son of a wealthy vineyard owner in the Beaujolais region. Although he took holy orders at the age of 26, he devoted his life to the study of botany, specializing in the genus Rosa. He travelled throughout the Mediterranean region, notably Crete, Spain, Portugal, and Algeria, amassing a herbarium of over 800,000 specimens, now kept at the Faculty of Lyon. However, he is notorious for having published thousands of plant species that are no longer accepted. Gandoger 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), which lists Gandoger's many publications.

The standard author abbreviation Gand. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

NB: Gandoger was originally known by the abbreviation Gdgr.

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)

References

1. ^ IPNI Author Details at www.ipni.org
2. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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Name	Gandoger, Michel
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Date of birth	1850
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Date of death	1926
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