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Monique Keraudren-Aymonin (8 December 1928– 25 May 1981) was a French botanist.

She was researcher and taxonomist in the National Museum of Natural History of France, in Paris.

She specialised in the study of the flora of Madagascar and of the Comoros, of the family of the Cucurbitaceae.

She married the French botanist Gérard Guy Aymonin.

This author is usually abbreviated Keraudren when citing a botanical name.

Honours

Several plants were named after her:

(Annonaceae) Polyalthia keraudreniae Le Thomas & G.E.Schatz
(Asclepiadaceae) Stapelianthus keraudreniae Bosser & Morat
(Begoniaceae) Begonia keraudreniae Bosser
(Convolvulaceae) Ipomoea keraudreniae Deroin
(Fabaceae) Vigna keraudrenii Du Puy & Labat
(Loranthaceae) Socratina keraudreniana Balle

Also, a genus of plant from central Asia;

(Apiaceae) Keraymonia Farille

See also

In Spanish: Monique Keraudren para niños

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