Gustav Mann

Gustav Mann was a German botanist who led expeditions in West Africa and was also a gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Born in Hanover in 1836, he was chosen by William Jackson Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to take part in William Balfour Baikie's expedition to West Africa. While there, he sent numerous specimens back to Kew.

Mann later collected specimens in Darjeeling, India, before retiring to Munich, Germany, in 1891. He died in 1916

Publications

Mann, G., H. Wendland, Hooker, Sir J. D. "On the palms of western tropical Africa". R. Taylor, 1864, London. Mann, G. "List of Assam ferns". C. Wolf & Sohn, 1898?, München

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