gustav, mann, 1836, 1916, german, botanist, expeditions, west, africa, also, gardener, royal, botanic, gardens, born, kingdom, hanover, 1836, chosen, william, jackson, hooker, director, royal, botanic, gardens, take, part, william, balfour, baikie, expedition,. Gustav Mann 1836 1916 was a German botanist who led expeditions in West Africa and was also a gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Born in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1836 he was chosen by William Jackson Hooker Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew to take part in William Balfour Baikie s expedition to West Africa While there he sent numerous specimens back to Kew He married Mary Anne Stovell in 1863 Mann s exploration of the Cameroon mountains is described by Sir Richard Burton in Abeokuta and the Camaroon Mountains vol 2 1 Mann later collected specimens in Darjeeling India before retiring to Munich Germany in 1891 He died in 1916 Some 349 species of plants the genera Manniella Hook f and Manniophyton Muell Arg and Mann s Spring on the Cameroon Mountain bear his name The standard author abbreviation G Mann is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 2 Publications editMann G H Wendland Hooker Sir J D On the palms of western tropical Africa R Taylor 1864 London Mann G List of Assam ferns C Wolf amp Sohn 1898 MunchenMann G Physiological Histology Methods and Theory Clarendon Press 1902 OxfordFor more information 3 References edit Burton Richard Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains burtoniana org vol II 1863 Accessed 31 July 2012 International Plant Names Index G Mann HerbWeb Gustav Mann Page Archived 2007 02 20 at the Wayback Machine at www kew org nbsp nbsp nbsp This article about a German botanist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gustav Mann amp oldid 1194936848, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,