Ian Charleson Hedge

Ian C. Hedge, a Scottish botanist, was a staff member of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) from 1951 to 1992 and curator of the Herbarium from the mid-1960s until 1988. He has been an Honorary Associate of the RBGE since 1992. He is an expert on several families: Labiatae, Umbelliferae, Cruciferae, and Chenopodiaceae, and was much involved in the SW Asian countries, where he studied and collected plants. He was a close collaborator on the Flora of Turkey and contributed greatly to the Flora of Iraq, Flora of Cyprus, Flora of Pakistan and especially Rechinger’s Flora Iranica.

Dr. Hedge published over 120 papers and c. 200 accounts in floras, including Labiatae for the Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. Recently he co-authored the Field Guide Afghanistan – Flora and Vegetation and associated publications on the vegetation of the country.