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 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 ferns in New Zealand (1861) and visited the Cape of Good Hope and the island of Réunion. From 1871 to 1895, he was director of the botanical garden in Caen.JSTOR Global Plants biographyBiodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
The plant genus Vieillardia was named in his honor by Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier in 1860.Index Nominum Genericorum Vieillardia More than 35 botanical species bear his name, a few examples being: Nepenthes vieillardii, Tristaniopsis vieillardii, Microsorum vieillardii and Dacrycarpus vieillardii.Google Books A Handbook of the World's Conifers (2 volumes) by Aljos Farjon, 2010 His name is also associated with a species of reptile found in New Caledonia, "Vieillard's chameleon gecko" (Eurydactylodes vieillardi).Google Books The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson, 2011
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.