Jean Armand Isidore Pancher

Jean Armand Isidore Pancher (1 January 1814, in Versailles – 8 March 1877) was a French gardener and botanist.

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.

[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.

Specimens collected by Pancher are cared for at herbaria worldwide, including the National Museum of Natural History, France, the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Kew Herbarium and others.