Monique Keraudren

Monique Keraudren-Aymonin (8 December 1928– 25 May 1981) was a French botanist.^[1][2]

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. The standard author abbreviation Keraudren is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

Publications

• Keraudren-Aymonin, Monique (1978), Taxonomic aspects of African economic botany. Proc. IX plenary meeting of Association pour l'Etude Taxonomique de la Flore d'Afrique Tropicale, AETFAT, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 18–23 March 1978
• Keraudren-Aymonin, Monique (1970), Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München. 10 Proc. of the 7º plenary meeting of the Association pour l'Etude Taxonomique of the Flore of l'Afrique Tropicale, AETFAT, Munich, 7–12 September 1970
• Keraudren, Monique (1968). Recherches sur les cucurbitacées de Madagascar. Nouvelle série. Série B, Botanique 16 (2). Éditions du Muséum.
• Keraudren-Aymonin, Monique (1983). Bégoniacées. 144-145. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Lab. de Phanérogamie. ISBN 978-2-85654-165-4.
• Keraudren, Monique (1967). Cucurbitacées. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.

Honours

Several plants were named after her:

• (Annonaceae) Polyalthia keraudreniae Le Thomas & G.E.Schatz^[4]
• (Asclepiadaceae) Stapelianthus keraudreniae Bosser & Morat^[5]
• (Begoniaceae) Begonia keraudreniae Bosser^[6]
• (Convolvulaceae) Ipomoea keraudreniae Deroin^[7]
• (Fabaceae) Vigna keraudrenii Du Puy & Labat^[8]
• (Loranthaceae) Socratina keraudreniana Balle^[9]

Notes

1. Deysson, Guy (1982). "Monique Keraudren—Aymonin (1928–1981)". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. Lettres Botaniques. 129 (1): 77–84. doi:10.1080/01811797.1982.10824530. ISSN 0181-1797.
2. Leroy, Jean-François. "Monique Keraudren-Aymonin (1928-1981)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Section B, Adansonia, botanique, phytochimie (4): 363–371.
3. IPNI.  Keraudren.
4. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. B, Adansonia Sér. 4, 12(2): 124, as 'keraudrenii' 1990 (IK)
5. Adansonia sér. 2, 11(2): 337, as 'keraudrenae' 1971 (IK)
6. in Fl. Madag. Fam. 144: 59 (1983), as 'keraudrenae' (IK)
7. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia Sér. 4, 14(3-4): 337. 1993 (IK)
8. Legum. Madagascar [J.M. Bosser et al.] 576 2002 (IK)
9. Adansonia sér. 2, 4: 135 1964 (IK)

External links

• International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Author Details" (HTML). International Plant Names Index.

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