Anne-Marie Homolle (1912-2006), was a French

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

noted for studying and collecting plants of

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. She identified at least 260 species of plants native to Madagascar, and two genera were named in her honor: '' Homollea'' (in the family Rubiaceae) and ''Homolliella'' (now a synonym of '' Paracephaelis'' Baill. ).

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1912 births 1988 deaths 20th-century French botanists 20th-century French women scientists French expatriates in Madagascar {{France-botanist-stub