Eugène Vieillard (1819–1896) was a French physician and
botanist.
Employed as a surgeon with the merchant navy, from 1855 to 1857 he collected plants in
Tahiti
Tahiti (; Tahitian ; ; previously also known as Otaheite) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is Austra ...
with gardener-botanist
Jean Armand Isidore Pancher. Afterwards, he spent a number of years conducting botanical investigations in
New Caledonia, where he was a colleague to naturalist
Émile Deplanche. Within this time period, he also collected
fern
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...
s in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
(1861) and visited the
Cape of Good Hope and the island of
Réunion. From 1871 to 1895, he was director of the
botanical garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...
in
Caen.
[JSTOR Global Plants]
biography[Biodiversity Heritage Library]
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
The plant genus ''Vieillardia'' was named in his honor by
Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier
Reverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier (3 December 1820 – 6 May 1897)
was a French people, French Marist Brothers, Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.
Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melane ...
in 1860.
[ More than 35 botanical species bear his name,][ a few examples being: '']Nepenthes vieillardii
''Nepenthes vieillardii'' (; after Eugène Vieillard, collector of plants from New Caledonia and Tahiti between 1861 and 1867) is a species of pitcher plant endemic to the island of New Caledonia. Its distribution is the most easterly of any '' ...
'', '' Tristaniopsis vieillardii'', '' Microsorum vieillardii'' and ''Dacrycarpus vieillardii
''Dacrycarpus vieillardii'' is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is found only in New Caledonia
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''. His name is also associated with a species of reptile found in New Caledonia, "Vieillard's chameleon gecko" ('' Eurydactylodes vieillardi'').
Selected works
* ''Plantes utiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'', 1862 – Useful plants of New Caledonia.
* ''Etudes sur les genres Oxera et Deplanchea'', 1862 – Studies of the genera ''Oxera
''Oxera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae native to Vanuatu and New Caledonia in the western Pacific.
Description
Species of ''Oxera'' show a variety of growth forms, including lianas, shrubs and trees. The leaves are ...
'' and '' Deplanchea''.
* ''Essais Sur la Nouvelle-Calédonie'', 1863 (with Émile Deplanche) – Essays on New Caledonia.
* ''Plantes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'', 1865 – Plants native to New Caledonia.
* ''Étude sur les palmiers de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'', 1873 – Study of palms native to New Caledonia.Google Search
publications
References
External links
IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Vieillard.
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1819 births
1896 deaths
19th-century French botanists