Ian Charleson Hedge (18 August 1928 – 7 August 2022) was a Scottish botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Hedge made important contributions to the flora of Iran and Iraq, and was a recognised authority on the flora of south-west Asia. He named more than 300 new plant species.
Ian Charleson Hedge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 August 1928 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 7 August 2022 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Taxonomy Ecology Botany |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany Biology Zoology |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Hedge |
Biography
editHedge spent seven months collecting in Turkey in 1957 with Peter Davis. Together they gathered more than 6,000 specimens.[1] Then he spent 3 months in Afghanistan with (a Norwegian botanist) Per Wendelbo,[2] they made significant collections to the Garden Herbarium in 1962 in the north and north-east of the country and then he returned in 1969 with Wendelbo and Lars Ekberg. They were one of the first botanists to explore the area.[3]
He described Salvia buchananii in the Botanical Magazine in 1963.[4]
In 1982, he published a book about Salvia's, which recognised up to 86 species.[5]
In 1986, Ian and Professor Karl Rechinger published Plant life of South-West Asia by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, it was dedicated to Karl Heinz Rechinger on his eightieth birthday.[6]
By 1988, he was the curator of the Botanical Garden Herbarium.[7]
He collected in Portugal in the 1990s.[1] Then with Fatima Sales,[8] he published 'Jasione L. taxonomy and phylogeny' in 2002.[9] Also 'Three perplexing names of species of Campanula L.'[10] and 'The taxonomy and conservation of Campanula primulifolia (Campanulaceae), a critically endangered species in the Iberian Peninsula' in 2010 (with Anna Trias-Blasi, Eddie, William M.M. and Michel Möller).[11]
He contributed to 'The Davis Festschrift' (edited by Kit Tan) on Peter Hadland Davis's 70th birthday and his own 60th Birthday in 1989.[12]
In 1999, he was honoured by the naming of Ianhedgea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae from central Asia and Tibet.[13]
He is mentioned in Mabberley's Plant-book of 2003[14] and his The Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants (in 1990).[15]
In 2010, with other members of the Royal Botanical Garden, he identified various plant specimens for Mark Price's book 'Animal Re-introductions: The Arabian Oryx in Oman'.[16]
On 31 January 2012, he appealed (on behalf of the Royal Botanic Garden) via the BBC to the Pakistani government to release more than 4,000 copies of a botany text book destined for Afghanistan schools and environmental groups. The 10 tonnes of books had been held at customs in Karachi for the past year.[3] It is the 'Field Guide Afghanistan Flora and Vegetation', written by Ian and Siegmar-Walter Breckle in 2010.[17]
Hedge died on 7 August 2022, at the age of 93.[18]
Other sources
edit- M. Alam, 2009, "Plant Collectors in Afghanistan", Bulletin de la Société vaudoise des Sciences naturelles, 91(3): 327-329
- K. Tan (ed.), 1989, Plant taxonomy, phytogeography and related subjects. The Davis & Hedge Festschrift.
- Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984)
Bibliography
edit- Studies in the Flora of Afghanistan by Ian Charleson Hedge and Per Wendelbo, 1963
- Flora Iranica: Capparidaceae - Volume 68 (Ian Charleson Hedge - 1970)[20]
- Index of collectors in the Edinburgh Herbarium / edited by I. C. Hedge and J. M. Lamond, Edinburgh Herbarium, 1970
- Plant life of South-West Asia. Edited by Peter Hadland Davis, Peter Charles Harper and Ian Charleson Hedge (1971),[21]
- Flora Europea (Ian Charleson Hedge - 1972)[5]
- A revision of Salvia in Africa and the Canary Islands. (Ian Hedge - 1974)[22]
- Aizoaceae (Ian Charleson Hedge, Jennifer M. Lamond - 1975)[23]
- Molluginaceae (Ian Charleson Hedge, Jennifer M. Lamond - 1975)[24]
- Iridaceae: Aizoaceae (Karl Heinz Rechinger, Per Wendelbo, Brian Mathew, Ian Charleson Hedge, Jennifer M. Lamond, Jindrich Chrtek, Bohdan Křísa, Henriëtte Dorothea Schotsman, Harald Riedl - 1975)[25]
- Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 7, Labiatae. (Ian Hedge and P.H Davis) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982[22]
- Flora of Cyprus. Ian C Hedge (R.D. Meikle -editor), Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, 1985
- Umbelliferae / I.C. Hedge editor, Karl Heinz Rechinger Hedge, Ian C. (Ian Charleson) 1987
- Plant Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Related Subjects: Davis and Hedge Festschrift by P. H. Davis, Ian Charleson Hedge, Kit Tan and R.R. Mill (2 Nov 1989)
- Chenopodiaceae (Ian Hedge) 1997[26]
- Labiatae (Ian Charleson Hedge, S. I. Ali, Yasin J. Nasir - 1990 )[27]
- Flora of Pakistan. No. 204, Chenopodiaceae (Heiko Freitag, Ian Charleson Hedge, S. M. H. Jafri) 2001[28]
- Cruciferae (Brassicaceae), Ian Hedge, The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department, 1997.[29]
- Field Guide Afghanistan Flora and Vegetation (Ian Hedge and Siegmar-Walter Breckle, 2010[17]
References
edit- ^ a b "Hedge, Ian Charleson (1928-)". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Collectors at RBGE (E)". Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Karachi customs delay for Edinburgh botany books". bbc.co.uk. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Lamiaceae Salvia buchananii Hedge". ipni.org. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Salvia ekiminana (Lamiaceae), a new species from Turkey" (PDF). Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Plant life of South-West Asia /". lib.ugent.be. 1986. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Peter Hadland Davis, James Cullen, M. J. E. Coode (Editors) (acknowledgements) Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Volume 10, p. vii (acknowledgements), at Google Books
- ^ "Matias Sales Machado, Maria de Fátima | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ Sales, F.; Hedge, I.C. (2 December 2002). "Jasione L. taxonomy and phylogeny" (PDF). Turkish Journal Botanic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ Sales, F.; Hedge, I.C. (17 May 2010). "Three perplexing names of species of Campanula L." (PDF). CONSERVATOIRE ET JARDIN BOTANIQUES DE GENÈVE 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ The taxonomy and conservation of Campanula primulifolia (Campanulaceae), a critically endangered species in the Iberian Peninsula. worldcat.org. OCLC 840774176.
- ^ Umberto Quattrocchi CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names Volume 1, p. 1770, at Google Books
- ^ "Ianhedgea Al-Shehbaz & O'Kane | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ D. J. Mabberley A Portable Dictionary of Plants, Their classification and uses , p. 986, at Google Books
- ^ The Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, p. 828, at Google Books
- ^ Mark R. Stanley Price Animal Re-introductions: The Arabian Oryx in Oman, p. xviii, at Google Books
- ^ a b Field Guide Afghanistan Flora and Vegetation. worldcat.org. OCLC 696764700.
- ^ "Ian Hedge". RBGE. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Hedge.
- ^ Flora Iranica: Capparidaceae - Volume 68 at Google Books
- ^ Plant life of South-West Asia. worldcat.org. OCLC 891129110.
- ^ a b Walker, Jay B.; Sytsma, Kenneth J. (August 2007). "Staminal Evolution in the Genus Salvia (Lamiaceae): Molecular Phylogenetic Evidence for Multiple Origins of the Staminal Lever". Annals of Botany. 100 (2). Oxford University Press: 375–391. doi:10.1093/aob/mcl176. PMC 2735309. PMID 16926227.
- ^ Aizoaceae at Google Books
- ^ Molluginaceae at Google Books
- ^ Iridaceae: Aizoaceae at Google Books
- ^ Ian Hedge Chenopodiaceae at Google Books
- ^ Labiatae at Google Books
- ^ Flora of Pakistan. No. 204, Chenopodiaceae at Google Books
- ^ Cruciferae (Brassicaceae). worldcat.org. 1997. OCLC 150352085.