> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 256](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212298) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123682429) QID Q123682429 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thihaudin, Gaston Louis (1727-1776), fictitious French explorer and botanist, said to have been sent to Cuba, Chile and Peru by Louis XVI in 1776 to collect medicinal plants that could be naturalized in France. **Abbreviated name**: *Thibaudin* #### Herbarium and types Non-existent. #### Biofile - Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 179. 1919. - Conde, J.A., Hist. bot. Cuba 52. 1958. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American biography 6: 75-76. 1889. #### Note One of the most ingeniously depicted fictitious botanists featured in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 6: 75-76. 1889 (see Barnhart 1919). Thibaudin was said to have "landed in Concepcion early in February, 1777, journeyed for months through the pampas \[sic\] and the mountains, and formed a rich herbarium". On his return in France in 1785 "he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences"; his works included e.g. "Descriptions des plantes recueillir \[sic\] dans un voyage au Pérou et au Chili", 2 vols., Paris 1786 and a "Prodrome de la flore du Chili avec un herbier explicatif 4 vols., 1788. – Conde (1958) accepted these fictitious authors uncritically, even added some minor details, and in this case changed the name to "C.A. Thibaudt".