Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 – 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London.
[1][2] Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years.
Although his best-known work probably consists of his many studies of the East African flora, he has also made extensive contributions relating to African terrestrial mollusks and to entomology.
[6] In 2012, botanists H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi published Verdesmum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Malaysia belonging to the family Fabaceae, it was named in Bernard Verdcourt's honour.
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