# Gilbert Mandon

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{{Short description|French mining engineer and botanist (1799–1866)}}
'''Gilbert Mandon''' (1799 – 1866) was a French mining engineer and botanist. Mandon is noted for his botanical work during the mid-nineteenth century while he was the director of a mine in [Tipuani](/source/Tipuani), [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) from 1848 to 1861. He collected over 1800 plants in the region between Tipuani and [Sorata](/source/Sorata). Much of this collection is now housed in the [herbarium](/source/herbarium) of the Grand National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He also collected plant specimens in the Canary Islands, Portugal, and Tunisia.<ref name="harvherb">{{cite web|url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=40729|publisher=Harvard University Herbarium|title=Index of Botanists: Mandon, Gilbert|accessdate=November 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name="ochoa">{{cite book|last=Ochoa|first=Carlos M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ks1996F0cAC&pg=PA638 |publisher=International Potato Center|location=Lima, Peru|year=2004|page=638|isbn=92-90-60-198-1|title=The Potatoes of South America: Peru. The Wild Species, Part 1}}</ref> Mandon edited several [exsiccata](/source/exsiccata)-like series, one of them with the title ''Algae Maderenses'', another with the title ''Plantae Andium Boliviensium''.<ref name="Triebel & Scholz 2001-2025">Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2025 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Algae Maderenses: IndExs ExsiccataID=544501888 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=544501888 |access-date=19 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Plantae Andium Boliviensium: IndExs ExsiccataID=2147200146 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200146 |access-date=19 June 2025}}</ref> He initially trained to be a theologian and while in Paris worked as a tutor and secretary. Mandon closely connected to the species ''[Tarasa mandonii](/source/Tarasa_mandonii) ''.<ref name="jstorplantlife">{{cite web|url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000005382|publisher=JSTOR|title= Mandon, Gilbert (Gustave) (1799-1866)|accessdate=November 8, 2014}}</ref>

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