Eug\u00e8ne<\/strong> Poilane<\/strong>(16 March 1888 \u2013 30 April 1964)<\/p>\n Information compiled by Carol Ann McCormick, The University of North Carolina Herbarium (NCU) has 15 fungal specimens and 3 vascular plant specimens collected by Eug\u00e8ne Poilane.\u00a0 As our vascular plant collection continues to be inventoried, it is likely that more specimens collected by Poilane will be found.<\/p>\n According to the Harvard Herbaria database of botanists, other herbaria that hold Poilane\u2019s specimens include A (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University in Massachusetts), B (Botanischer Garten undBotanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitat Berlin), BR (National Botanic Garden of Belgium in Meise), DAO (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa), E (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland), F (Field Museum in Chicago), G (Conservatoire et Jardinbotaniques de la Ville de Gen\u00e8ve in Switzerland), L (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University), NY (New York Botanical Garden in the United States), P and PC (Museum Nationald\u2019Histoire Naturelle in Paris), and US (Smithsonian Institution in the United States).<\/p>\n Lilium<\/em><\/strong> polanei<\/em><\/strong> Gagnep. is endemic to northwest Vietnam and northwest Laos (photo from hwhyde.co.uk)<\/p>\n #####<\/strong><\/p>\n Prados<\/strong>, John and Ray W. Stubbe (1991)\u00a0 Valley of Decision:\u00a0 The Siege of Khe Sanh.\u00a0 Annapolis, MD:\u00a0 Naval Institute Press.\u00a0 p. 25-26.<\/strong><\/p>\n Khe Sanh village existed as a result of the presence of French coffee planters.\u00a0 It began with Eug\u00e8nePoilane, a son of peasants, born at Saint-Sauveur de Landemont, France, on March 16, 1888.\u00a0 Poilane, by profession an \u201cartillery worker,\u201d arrived in South Vietnam, then the French protectorate of Cochinchina, in 1909.\u00a0 He worked at the naval arsenal for some years, until he chanced to meet naturalist AugusteChevalier, who after the First World War appointed Poilane as a prospector for the Botanical Institute.\u00a0 In 1922 Poilane became an agent of the Forest Service of Indochina.<\/p>\n Eug\u00e8ne Poilane first passed through what became Khe Sanh village in 1918, when it consisted of only one house, that of the engineer supervising construction of Colonial Route 9, the first metaled road to Laos.\u00a0 Like the Americans who followed, he was captivated by the lush vegetation and thought the red soil as fine as anything in Tuscany.\u00a0\u00a0 He returned in 1926 to start a coffee plantation, importing chiaricoffee trees and tending them for the ten years they need to become productive.\u00a0 His plantation extended throughout the area subsequently occupied by Khe Sanh combat base.\u00a0 In fact, the access road from the base airfield to Route 9 was Poilane\u2019s private thoroughfare.\u00a0 His motorcar was the first vehicle in the region.<\/p>\n Not only did Poilane establish the first plantation, he fulfilled his avocation of botanist with aplomb, traveling throughout Indochina, even to the borders of China and Burma, in behalf of the Forestry Service.\u00a0 Poilane collected specimens that he sent to the museum at Saigon.\u00a0 Until 1947 his submissions numbered between fifteen hundred and five thousand a year, for a total of more than thirty-six thousand, and he was credited with having discovered twenty-one species of plants and producing the second known specimens of nineteen others.\u00a0 The [genera] Poilania<\/em> [in the Asteraceae] and Poilaniella<\/em> [in theEuphorbiaceae] will forever give homage to this venturesome man.\u00a0 Poilane began an experimental orchard, attempting to introduce numerous types of fruit trees native to tropical and even temperate climates.\u00a0 He imported grafts from France, Japan, and other countries.<\/p>\n As the trees grew, so did the Poilane family.\u00a0 Madame Bordeauducq, Eug\u00e8ne\u2019s formidable first wife, who bore him five children, kept her maiden name to show her independence.\u00a0 Indeed, when Poilane divorced her, Bordeauducq merely moved a kilometer down the road and started a plantation of her own.\u00a0 Poilanethen married a Nung woman and sired five more children.<\/p>\n \u2026 Another planter [in the Khe Sanh area] was M. Rome, whose land lay east of the village along Route 9.\u00a0 His wife and gardener, both Japanese, reportedly lived pretty high during the Japanese occupation of Indochina in World War II.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n The Rome plantation then went to a renter, M. Llinares, who lived in Tonkin but had lost almost everything at the end of the Franco-Vietnamese war, when he abandoned his property in what became North Vietnam.<\/p>\n ….<\/p>\n Llinares has been quoted as telling visitors to the village that he wanted only one thing of God:\u00a0 \u201cI ask to die at Khe Sanh.\u201d\u00a0 On April 30, 1964, Llinares was a passenger in Eug\u00e8ne Poilane\u2019s well-known yellow Citroen when the two were ambushed.\u00a0 Llinares survived, but Poilane died.<\/p>\n ##########################################<\/p>\n There are many animals & plants named in Eug\u00e8ne Poilane\u2019s honor, including the plant genera Poilania<\/em>Gagnep. (Asteraceae; now considered to be in the genus Epaltes<\/em> Cass.) and Poilaniella<\/em> Gagnep. (Euphorbiaceae). \u201cThis species is apparently a large tree occurring in high montane close evergreen rainforest, at an altitude around 2300 m a.s.l.\u00a0 It is locally common but scattered, mixed with broad-leaved (angiosperm) trees and perhaps Nageia<\/em> wallichiana<\/em> as the only other conifer present.\u00a0 Rainfall is very high, at least over 3000 mm per annum and cool temperatures prevail due to almost continuous cloud cover.\u00a0 This species is still only known with certainty from a single mountain, where it was discovered in 1946 [by Poilane].\u00a0 Reports from other localities need confirmation by taxonomists who know the gens\u00a0Amentotaxus<\/em> well.\u00a0 The primary forest in this locality is still present and the total population probably consists of fewer than 1000 mature trees.\u00a0 The status of A. poilanei<\/em> was assessed under the IUCN Red List criteria of 1994 as Vulnerable, assuming a modest decline due to forest fragmentation at lower altitudes, approaching or encroaching on the population.\u00a0 More recent visits have indicated that there are no direct threats at present and that the species should be classified as Vulnerable on the basis of its small population size along, using the revised 2001 criteria.\u00a0 There are protected forest areas on the mountain which include this species.\u201d<\/p>\n A notice of Poilane\u2019s death was printed in the Bulletin de al Societe de biologie du Viet Nam 2(1):\u00a0 3-8.\u00a01964<\/em>.\u00a0 This article includes a candid photo of Poilane.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.herbarium.unc.edu\/Collectors\/Poilane.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of North Carolina Herbarium (NCU) has 15 fungal specimens and 3 vascular plant specimens collected by Eug\u00e8ne Poilane.\u00a0 As our vascular plant collection continues to be inventoried, it is likely that more specimens collected by Poilane will be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanist","category-eugene-poilane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGarra<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> Petit & Tchang \u2013 a freshwater tropical carp of Vietnam
\nGecinulus<\/em><\/strong> grantia<\/em><\/strong> ssp. poilanei<\/em><\/strong> Deignan \u2013 \u201cPale-headed Woodpecker\u201d native to Southeast Asia
\nLimnonectes<\/em><\/strong> poilani<\/em><\/strong> Bourret \u2013 a frog found in eastern Cambodia & southern Vietnam
\nPareuchiloglanis<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> Pellegrin \u2013 a sucker catfish
\nLeptoseps poilani Bourret \u2013 a skink
\nPseudocalotes poilani Bourret \u2013 Laotian False Bloodsucker
\nAeschynanthus<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> Pellegr. \u2013 Gesneriaceae, found on tree trunks in forests 900-100 m. elevation, Vietnam
\nBoea<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> Pellegr. \u2013 Gesneriaceae, now considered to be a synonym of Boea<\/em> philippensis<\/em> C. B. Clark, found on shady & damp rocks in forests at 100-800 m. elevation in Philippines & Vietnam
\nPrimulina<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> (Pellegr.) Mich. Moller & A. Weber (synonym = Chirita<\/em> poilanei<\/em> Pellegr.) \u2013Gesneriaceae
\nDeinostigma<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> (Pellegr.) W. T. Wang & Z.Y. Li (synonym = Hemiboea<\/em> poilanei<\/em> Pellegr.) \u2013Gesneriaceae\u00a0 According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.2, Deinostigma<\/em> poilanei<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cis only known from two collections from Nha-trand and Tourane, Vietnam, made in the 1920\u2019s.\u00a0 Field surveys are required to relocate this species and to gather more information on its status.\u201d
\nLilium<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Gagnep.\u00a0 (Liliaceae)\u00a0\u00a0 endemic to nw Vietnam & nw Laos\u00a0 PHOTO described in 1934 by Francois Gagnepain. (Bulletin de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Botanique de France 81(7\u20138): 619. 1934.)\u00a0 Holotype collected by Poilane (#12811).\u00a0 Tonkin: near Chapa, Km 8 to Lo-qui-ho hill.\u00a0 Syntype:\u00a0 Poilane #16929:\u00a0Laos:\u00a0 between Muong-het and Hung-send.\u00a0 Both of these may be in P, Museum National d\u2019HistoireNaturelle in Paris.
\nDendrocalamus<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> (Poaceae) named by Aimee Antoinette Camus in 1925 (Bulletin du Mus\u00e9umd’Histoire Naturelle 31: 205. 1925.)\u00a0 Holotype collected by Poilane (#8463) Annam:\u00a0 Cana, pr. Phanrangand is held by P, Museum National d\u2019Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
\nAmentotaxus<\/em><\/strong> poilanei<\/em><\/strong> (Ferre & Rouane) D.K. Ferguson\u00a0 Adansonia ser. 4, 11 (3):\u00a0 316.\u00a0 1989.\u00a0\u00a0(Cephalotaxaceae)\u00a0 Type:\u00a0 Vietnam, Kon Tum Prov., Ngoc Pan Massif, Mt. Ngoc Linh.\u00a0 Collected by E.Poilane #32686 (Holotype at P).\u00a0 According to Aljos Farjon (2010 )\u00a0 A handbook of the world\u2019s conifers, Vol. II.\u00a0 Leiden, Netherlands:\u00a0 Koninklijke Brill NV. Pp. 174-175.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPoilane\u2019s catkin yew\u201d \u201cDe tungNam,\u201d \u201cSam bong Nam\u201d in Vietnamese<\/p>\n