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About Eugène Vieillard
- Eugene 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.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).
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