Michel Gandoger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist and mycologist
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Place of Birth: Arnas, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Michel Gandoger
- Abbé Jean Michel Gandoger (10 May 1850 – 4 October 1926), was a French botanist and mycologist.
- 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 Jardin botanique de 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.
- Plants with the specific epithet of gandogeri are named after him, an example being Carex gandogeri.
- NB: Gandoger was originally known by the abbreviation Gdgr.
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