Aline Marie Raynal

{{short description|French botanist (1937–2022)}}

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| birth_date = February 4, 1937

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = July 16, 2022 (aged 85)

| death_place = Périgueux, France

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| fields = Botany

| workplaces = Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle de Paris

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Aline Marie Raynal (4 February 1937 – 16 July 2022) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator noted for studying the taxonomy of parasitic and aquatic tropical plants, as well as plants of the Sahel desert in Africa.{{cite web |title=DSI – Database of Scientific Illustrators |url=http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php?table_name=dsi&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=12816 |website=www.uni-stuttgart.de |accessdate=4 January 2019}} She was professor of botany at the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle de Paris. In 1995, her work was honored by the Institut de France. The minor planet 8651 Alineraynal was named in her honor.{{cite book |last1=Schmadel |first1=Lutz D. |title=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to 6th Edition: 2012-2014 |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319176772 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzBsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |accessdate=4 January 2019 |language=en}}{{cite journal |title=Raynal, Aline Marie |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.k35969 |journal=Global Plants |accessdate=4 January 2019 |language=en }} {{botanist|A.Raynal|inline=yes}}{{cite book |last1=Mabberley |first1=D. J. |title=The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants |date=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521414210 |url=https://archive.org/details/plantbookportabl00mabb |url-access=registration |accessdate=4 January 2019 |language=en}}

Raynal died on July 16, 2022, at the age of 85.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-21 |title=Décès d’Aline Raynal-Roques |url=https://www.tela-botanica.org/2022/07/deces-daline-raynal-roques/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Tela Botanica |language=fr-FR}}