Ian Charleson Hedge

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).[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]

• 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)

• 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]

• Has photo of Ian Hedge