Jean Armand Isidore Pancher (1 January 1814, in Versailles – 8 March 1877) was a French gardener and botanist.[1]
Beginning in 1835, he worked as gardener with at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. From 1849 to 1856, he served as a "jardinier colonial" in Tahiti, then as a government botanist in New Caledonia, based in Nouméa (1857–1869). After spending several years in France, he returned to the South Pacific in 1874 as a plant collector in the employ of Belgian horticulturist Jean Jules Linden. In 1877, he died in New Caledonia in an area between La Foa and Moindou.[2][3]
Many of the plants that he collected from the Pacific were further examined by other botanists that included Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart and Jean Antoine Arthur Gris.[2][4] The genus Pancheria (family Cunoniaceae) is named after him,[3] as are taxa with the specific epithet of pancheri,[5] an example being Acmopyle pancheri.
Publications edit
- Notice sur les bois de la Nouvelle Calédonie : suivie de considérations génerales sur les propriétés mécaniques des bois et sur les procédés employés pour les mesurer (with Hippolyte Sebert), 1874 – On the wood of New Caledonia, followed by general considerations on the mechanical properties of wood and the processes employed to measure.[6]
References edit
- ^ Zürcher Herbarien Sammler Details
- ^ a b JSTOR Global Plants biography
- ^ a b Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Pancher
- ^ Jardins de France Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine L'étonnante histoire de la liane royale
- ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library Notice sur les bois de la Nouvelle Calédonie
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Pancher.