Abbé Jean Michel Gandoger (10 May 1850 – 4 October 1926), was a French botanist and

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. He was born in Arnas, the son of a wealthy vineyard owner in the

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region. Although he took holy orders at the age of 26, he devoted his life to the study of

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, specializing in the

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''. He travelled throughout the Mediterranean, notably

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, and

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, amassing a herbarium of over 800,000 specimens, now kept at the

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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 ''

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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 {{Mycologist-stub