Eugène Vieillard (1819–1896) was a French physician and

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. Employed as a surgeon with the merchant navy, from 1855 to 1857 he collected plants in

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with gardener-botanist Jean Armand Isidore Pancher. Afterwards, he spent a number of years conducting botanical investigations in

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, where he was a colleague to naturalist Émile Deplanche. Within this time period, he also collected

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s in

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(1861) and visited the

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and the island of

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. From 1871 to 1895, he was director of the

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.JSTOR Global Plants
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Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications The plant genus ''Vieillardia'' was named in his honor by Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier in 1860. More than 35 botanical species bear his name, a few examples being: '' Nepenthes vieillardii'', '' Tristaniopsis vieillardii'', '' Microsorum vieillardii'' and '' Dacrycarpus vieillardii''. His name is also associated with a species of reptile found in New Caledonia, "Vieillard's chameleon gecko" (''

Eurydactylodes vieillardi ''Eurydactylodes vieillardi'', sometimes known commonly as Bavay's gecko or Vieillard's chameleon gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to Grande Terre in New Caledonia. www.reptile-database.org. ...

'').

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'' 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vieillard, Eugene 1819 births 1896 deaths 19th-century French botanists