Monique Keraudren-Aymonin

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

Life and work Keraudren-Aymonin was the third of six children born to Joseph Marie Keraudren and Rose Emilie Boëzennec. Her father was the director of a shipyard. She initially attended the community school in Cameret, but after her mother died in 1937, she then had to switch to boarding schools in Quimper and Brest. Keraudren was passionate about geography, science, music and art from an early age. On the advice of her uncle, a canon and mathematics professor, Keraudren-Aymonin began higher studies, attending the Catholic University of the West in Angers and then the science faculties of the University of Rennes and Paris-Sorbonne University. After eight certificates, she completed her university studies under the supervision of Pierre Pruvost. In 1955 she was commissioned by Henri Humbert, then chair of phanerogamy at the French National Museum of Natural History, to do a work on flower analysis and botanical illustrations. Humbert hired her as an assistant in his department that same year. After two research stays in Madagascar in 1960 and 1962, she received her doctorate in natural sciences from the École Normale Supérieure in 1966 with the dissertation Researches sur les Cucurbitacées de Madagascar. She later continued her work at the Chair of Phanerogamy and in 1971 was appointed deputy director of the National Museum of Natural History of France, in Paris. (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