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Gandoger the Memorious

By Roderick Cameron | August 24, 2026
Michel Gandoger in an albumen silver print dated 18 March 1876, dedicated on the reverse to Roberto de Visiani - Image: PHAIDRA University of Padova Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

While working on a list of synonyms of European White Oaks, I came across the work of the remarkable Michel Gandoger. He is little-known even in oak taxonomy circles, and yet he published more names of oaks than anyone else, close to 600, exceeding the prolific William Trelease (504 names in Quercus, according to the International Plant Names Index).

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Gandoger the Memorious

By Roderick Cameron | August 24, 2026
Michel Gandoger in an albumen silver print dated 18 March 1876, dedicated on the reverse to Roberto de Visiani - Image: PHAIDRA University of Padova Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

While working on a list of synonyms of European White Oaks, I came across the work of the remarkable Michel Gandoger. He is little-known even in oak taxonomy circles, and yet he published more names of oaks than anyone else, close to 600, exceeding the prolific William Trelease (504 names in Quercus, according to the International Plant Names Index).