Jean Armand Isidore Pancher Explained

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.

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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]

Jean Armand Isidore Pancher Explained

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