Rene Viguier

Rene Viguier (19 May 1880 in Paris – 17 January 1931 in Caen) was a French botanist known for his investigations of plants within the family Araliaceae.

He worked as a preparateur at the Museum national d'histoire naturelle with Philippe Edouard Leon Van Tieghem, afterwards serving as maitre de conferences at the Sorbonne. In 1912 he collected botanical specimens in Madagascar with Jean-Henri Humbert. From 1919 to 1931 he was a professor of botany at the University of Caen as well as director of city's botanical garden.

He was a member of the Societe botanique de France (1904), the Societe linneenne de Lyon (1921) and the Societe linneenne de Normandie (1919). In 1927 he founded the Archives de botanique.

The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix de Coincy for 1909. The grass genus Viguierella was named in his honor by Aimee Antoinette Camus (1926). Taxa with the specific epithet of viguieri are also named after him, an example being the grass species Cephalostachyum viguieri.