Gilbert Mandon

{{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, Bolivia from 1848 to 1861. He collected over 1800 plants in the region between Tipuani and Sorata. Much of this collection is now housed in the herbarium of the Grand National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He also collected plant specimens in the Canary Islands, Portugal, and Tunisia.{{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}}{{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}} Mandon edited several exsiccata-like series, one of them with the title Algae Maderenses, another with the title Plantae Andium Boliviensium.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2025 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.{{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}}{{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}} 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 .{{cite web|url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000005382|publisher=JSTOR|title= Mandon, Gilbert (Gustave) (1799-1866)|accessdate=November 8, 2014}}

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