Ian Charleson Hedge Explained

Ian Charleson Hedge
Birth Date:18 August 1928
Birth Place:Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality:British
Fields:Botany
Biology
Zoology
Known For:Taxonomy
Ecology
Botany
Author Abbrev Bot:Hedge

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.

Biography

Hedge 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).

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'.[15]

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.[16]

Hedge died on 7 August 2022, at the age of 93.[17]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hedge, Ian Charleson (1928-). 25 September 2014.
  2. Web site: Collectors at RBGE (E) . 25 September 2014 . 9 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170109074421/http://www.rbge.org.uk/science/herbarium/about-the-collections/collectors . dead .
  3. News: Karachi customs delay for Edinburgh botany books . 31 January 2012 . bbc.co.uk . 25 September 2014.
  4. Web site: Lamiaceae Salvia buchananii Hedge . ipni.org. 25 September 2014.
  5. Web site: Salvia ekiminana (Lamiaceae), a new species from Turkey. 10 March 2010 . Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board . 25 September 2014.
  6. Web site: Plant life of South-West Asia / . lib.ugent.be . 24 September 2022 . 1986.
  7. Peter Hadland Davis, James Cullen, M. J. E. Coode (Editors)
  8. Web site: Matias Sales Machado, Maria de Fátima International Plant Names Index . www.ipni.org . 12 September 2022.
  9. Web site: F.. Sales. I.C.. Hedge. Jasione L. taxonomy and phylogeny. 2 December 2002 . Turkish Journal Botanic . 25 September 2014.
  10. Web site: F.. Sales . I.C.. Hedge. Three perplexing names of species of Campanula L. . 17 May 2010 . CONSERVATOIRE ET JARDIN BOTANIQUES DE GENÈVE 2010. 25 September 2014.
  11. Book: The taxonomy and conservation of Campanula primulifolia (Campanulaceae), a critically endangered species in the Iberian Peninsula. worldcat.org. 840774176.
  12. Umberto Quattrocchi
  13. Web site: Ianhedgea Al-Shehbaz & O'Kane Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 15 May 2021 . en.
  14. D. J. Mabberley
  15. Mark R. Stanley Price
  16. Book: Field Guide Afghanistan Flora and Vegetation . worldcat.org. 696764700 .
  17. Web site: Ian Hedge . RBGE . 2 September 2022.
  18. Book: Plant life of South-West Asia. worldcat.org. 891129110.
  19. Jay B. . Walker . Kenneth J. . Sytsma . Staminal Evolution in the Genus Salvia (Lamiaceae): Molecular Phylogenetic Evidence for Multiple Origins of the Staminal Lever . Annals of Botany . 100. 2. 375–391. August 2007. 2735309 . Oxford University Press. 16926227 . 10.1093/aob/mcl176 .
  20. Ian Hedge
  21. Book: Cruciferae (Brassicaceae). 1997. worldcat.org. 150352085.

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