Plant species associated with Frank Kingdon-Ward. A-M, N-Z Page 1

This is a very difficult subject for me. Despite the fact that my great-grandfather was professor of botany at Cambridge university, my grandfather was a graduate in botany from Cambridge, and my father although from a different line was a keen and competent gardener. I myself am a disaster with plants. My garden is swamped with bindweed and my neighbours curse me. Where is Alan Titchmarsh when you need him? Of course I could make the excuse of no time, but the truth is I have killed plants supposed to be unkillable. On the optimistic front however I have learned much since I undertook this site and am fast learning more. FKW went on twenty-five expeditions over fifty years.  He brought back vast numbers of plants, flowers, seeds, bulbs, photographs and drawings. Many of the plant species were new to science. Some were plants which had been discovered before by westerners but samples or seeds had not been brought back before. Some turned out to be duplicates which he at first thought might be new. His most famous discovery was probably Meconopsis betonicifolia, the Tibetan blue poppy. However this was not THE blue poppy of his book "The land of the blue poppy." This was Meconopsis speciosa which he refers to as the Cambridge blue poppy. If you are reading this as a professional botanist, searching for some small piece of information which has eluded you then I confess you can probably help me more than I can help you. Please feel free to e-mail me to tell me I've got a fact wrong, I would welcome it. If you are new to botanical matters you may appreciate getting some of the basic information I have been learning along the way. Taxonomy and plant names. Naming authorities  W.W.Smith. ...............................................                              Isaac Bailey Balfour ......................... H1 = Herbarium specimen first collected by Kingdon-Ward. S* = Seed collected of plant known to science. S1 = First collected and seed brought back.  H* = herbarium specimen collected of plant known to science * = details not known.  1 = new species not known if seed brought back. Info source. Where I got the information from. Hillier's manual of trees and shrubs 1974, Charles Lyte, "Frank Kingdon-Ward, the last of the great plant hunters," Kingdon-Ward's own books. Commonsense Rock Gardening, Land of the blue poppy, In farthest Burma, Genus, species, variety          Naming auth.  Collected.   From area.   Awards.      Info.source   Other details                                                                     year H1 Acer wardii                       W.W.Sm.                                                                 Hillier's S* Aconitum Hookeri                                     1912            W china                       Blue poppy  H* Anaphalis xylorhiza            Schultz-Bip       1912            W.China                     Blue poppy H1 Androsace wardii                                                                                             Lyte H* Anemone obtusiloba              Don.             1912              W China                     Blue poppy    S* Anemone rupicola                Camb.           1912          W China                     Blue poppy    S* Arabis alpina                        Linn.                                    var. rubrocalyx     Franch.        1912              W.China                     Blue poppy H* Arenaria forrestii                   Diels.            1912              W.China                     Blue poppy H* Arenaria polytrichoides          Edgew           1912              W.China                     Blue poppy H* Arenaria Delavayi                  Franch           1912             W.China                     Blue poppy H* Astragalus yunnanensis         Franch.           1912            W.China                      Blue poppy H* Astragalus wolgensis            Bunge.             1912            W.China                     Blue poppy * Berberis calliantha               Mulligan          1924              S.E.Tibet                       Hillier's * Berberis chrysosphaera         Mulligan.         1933-4                                               Hillier's * Berberis hypokerina            Airy-Shaw       1926                               AM 1932      Hillier's         (silver holly) * Berberis temolaica               Ahrendt           1924              S.E.Tibet                       Hillier's H* Braya rubricunda                  Franch.           1912             W. China                       Blue poppy H* Braya simensis                    Hemsl.              1912             W. China                     Blue poppy H* Callianthemum cacherimianum Camb.         1912            W China                       Bluepoppy      H* Caltha palustris                    Linn.               1912             W China                      Lyte/Bluepoppy H* caragana crassicaulis           Benth.               1912             W.China                      Blue poppy H* Cardamine ganulifera       (Franch.) Diels.    1912           W.China                        Blue poppy H1 Cardamine verticillata       Jeff. & W.W.Sm. 1912             W.China                      Blue poppy  S* Codonopsis convolvulacea     Kurz.               1912              W.China                      Bue poppy   * Cornus chinensis                Wanger            1950              N.Assam                        Hillier's          (KW 19300) H* Corydalis balfourina            Diels                1912              W.China                      Blue poppy H* Corydalis pulchella               Franch             1912              W.China                       Blue poppy * Cotoneaster conspicuus      Marquand        1925              S.E.Tibet     AM 1935      Hillier's 1 Cotoneaster wardii             W.W.SM.        1913              S.E.Tibet     AM 1939      Hillier's S1 Cremanthodium bupleuriflorum   W.W.Sm.   1912             W.China                       Blue poppy S* Cremanthodium decaisnei     C.B.Clarke        1912            W.China                       Blue poppy S* Cremanthodium rhodocephalum    Diels        1912             W.China                      Blue poppy   * Crepis rosularis                         Diels           1912            W.China                      Blue poppy   * Crepis umbrella                     Franch.           1912             W.China                     Blue poppy   1 Cypripedium wardii                                                                                         CRG H* Draba alpina                       Linn.                 1912          W.China                        Blue poppy H* Epilobium angustifilium          Linn.               1912           W.China                         Blue poppy   1 Gaultheria wardii               Marqu.-Shaw  C.1933        S.E.Tibet                            Hillier's   1 Gentiana wardii                                                                                                  Lyte/CRG H* Geranium pylzowianum       Maxim            1912           W.China                         Blue poppy H* Gueldenstaedtia yunnanensis  Franch            1912           W.China                         Blue poppy H* Hedysarum sikkimense         Benth.             1912          W.China                          Blue poppy S* Isopyrum grandiflorum         Fisch.            1912             W China                       Blue poppy  S* Lactuca souliei                    Franch.            1912            W.China                        Blue poppy         * Leycesteria crocothyrsos      Airy-Shaw       1928          Assam                                CRG/Hillier's   * Lilium macklinae                                                                                              Lyte   1 Lilium wardii                                                                                                  Lyte   1 Listera wardii                                                                                                     Lyte H* Lychnis nigrescens              Edgew.            1912        W.China                             Blue poppy *  Magnolia cambellii            F.K.Ward       1920      S.E.Tib./Yun.   FCC 1939         Hillier's            var.mollicomata    Meconopsis betonicifolia * Meconopsis florindae                                                                                         Lyte S1 Meconopsis wardii            Prain                1912    W.China                            Blue poppy/Lyte H* Morina bulleyana         G.Foerrest/Diels.       1912      W.CHina                             Blue poppy

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