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Papers by Martyn Rix

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jul 12, 2023

SummaryCorydalis mucronata Franch., illustrated here, is among several Corydalis collected by Pèr... more SummaryCorydalis mucronata Franch., illustrated here, is among several Corydalis collected by Père Armand David in Moupine (now Baoxing) in western Sichuan. It can be a conspicuous plant, forming large populations on shady, wet slopes. Though introduced to England over 20 years ago, it is still rare in gardens. Suggestions for its successful cultivation are given.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jul 11, 2023

SummaryDelphinium caucasicum C.A. Mey. is illustrated from plants cultivated at the Royal Botanic... more SummaryDelphinium caucasicum C.A. Mey. is illustrated from plants cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Its history, nomenclature and ecology are described and instructions for its successful cultivation are given.

Phytotaxa, Jul 7, 2022

Fritillaria Linnaeus (1753: 303; Liliaceae) comprises about 170 species of geophytic perennials (... more Fritillaria Linnaeus (1753: 303; Liliaceae) comprises about 170 species of geophytic perennials (Rix 2019) occurring in most temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (Tomović et al. 2007, Hill 2014, Day et al. 2014). The largest number of taxa has been found in Turkey (46 species) and Greece (31 taxa, 26 species and five subspecies).

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Aug 26, 2022

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jun 1, 2022

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, May 16, 2022

SummaryGladiolus microcarpus G.J. Lewis is a striking, summer‐flowering cremnophyte, with a stron... more SummaryGladiolus microcarpus G.J. Lewis is a striking, summer‐flowering cremnophyte, with a strongly weeping habit, endemic to the Drakensberg Mountain Centre in southern Africa. A description and details of its history, taxonomy, habitat and cultivation are given.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jun 1, 2016

Polygonatum kingianum is a medicinal and food plant distributed in most of countries throughout t... more Polygonatum kingianum is a medicinal and food plant distributed in most of countries throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Here we report on the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of P. kingianum. The cp genome is 155,399 bp in size and includes two inverted repeat regions of 52,7411 bp, which is separated by a large single-copy region of 84,234 bp and a small single copy region of 18,424 bp. A total of 130 genes were predicted, including 38 tRNA, 8 rRNA, and 84 proteincoding genes. Phylogenetic analysis placed P. kingianum under the subfamily Nolinoideae of the family Asparagaceae.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jun 1, 2020

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Mar 1, 2023

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, May 30, 2021

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Apr 1, 2019

Rosa moyesii Hemsl. & Wilson forma moyesii (SICH 2207) is illustrated and described. Its origin a... more Rosa moyesii Hemsl. & Wilson forma moyesii (SICH 2207) is illustrated and described. Its origin and recent collections of the bright red-flowered form, close to the cultivar 'Geranium', are discussed. The majority of wild roses have white, pink or yellow flowers, a few are crimson, but bright scarlet-red flowers are very rare. Rosa moyesii, in particular the cultivar 'Geranium', is known for its red flowers, but even in this species, most plants have purplish-pink or, more rarely, crimson petals. Rosa moyesii is also grown for its large, red hips, which are very striking in a free-fruiting form. The cultivar 'Sealing Wax', which has pink flowers, was chosen particularly for its good crops of hips (Austin, 1990). The history of Rosa moyesii is discussed in the recent article on R. moyesii forma rosea (Rix, 2014). It was described from collections made near Tachienlu, today Kanding, in western Sichuan, and named for the Revd. James Moyes, a member of the China Inland Mission, resident in Kanding, and, by repute, a hospitable and colourful character. Hemsley & Wilson cited two type collections, one by Antwerp E. Pratt (Pratt 172) and the other by E.H. Wilson (Wilson 3543). In an article in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, in 1928 Otto Stapf chose Pratt 172 as the lectotype of R. moyesii, and named Wilson 3543 as a new species, R. holodonta (Stapf, 1928). The original description of Rosa moyesii was in 1906, based on herbarium specimens: Pratt's collection dates from 1893, Wilson's from 1903, when he was collecting for Messrs Veitch. Seedlings from Wilson's collection flowered at Coombe Wood in June 1909, and Curtis's Botanical Magazine plate 8338 was prepared from one of these. Hemsley's text describes the flowers as deep blood red, not quite the colour in the accompanying plate, and suggests that this particular seedling had the darkest red flowers, another 'with paler flowers which, though also beautiful, is less effective than that shown here'. Wilson's own summary (1916) notes the variability of colour: 'The flowers

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jul 17, 2023

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Jul 5, 2023

SummaryCodonopsis pilosula subsp. tangshen is illustrated: its relationships, history and pollina... more SummaryCodonopsis pilosula subsp. tangshen is illustrated: its relationships, history and pollination are discussed. Instructions for its successful cultivation are given, and references are given to its use in Traditional Chinese medicine.