Frank Kingdon-Ward

Frank Kingdon - Ward Francis Kingdon Ward actually ( born November 6, 1885 in Manchester, † April 8, 1958 in Wimbledon ) was a British plant collector. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kingdon -Ward ".

Life and work

Frank Kingdon -Ward was the son of Cambridge botanist Harry Marshall Ward. He traveled as a plant collector by the Himalayas and visited, among others, Tibet, China, Burma and India. Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, supported his first trips financially.

He brought, inter alia, rhododendrons, camellias, primroses, iris, the blue poppy ( Meconopsis betonicifolia ) and Lilium arboricola to Europe. In 1952, he described his experiences in the book Plant Hunter in Manipur.

Dedikationsnamen

In his honor, the plant genera were

• Aster Small Ward of the sunflower family ( Asteraceae)

The Gart Tung Wardenia King of the Araliaceae family ( Araliaceae ) was named in honor of Charles James Hislop Warden, one of the authors of Pharmacographia Indica.

He is also dedicated to plant breeding Pleione humilis ' Frank Kingdon Ward '.

Norman Boyd Kinnear described the 1927 Rosenschwanztrogon ( Harpactes wardi ). He received The type specimen of Frank Kingdon -Ward, to whom he also dedicated the specific epithet.