Margaret Trevena Martin

Margaret Trevana Martin (1905-2000) was a British botanist and phycologist noted for identifying several species of South African Rhodophyceae.[1]

Career

She worked at University College of North Wales, Bangor.[2]

In 1937 she was inducted into the Linnean Society of London.

Martin was a co-founder of the British Phycological Society with her friend and fellow phycologist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker[3] and later served as Vice President of the organisation.[4][5]

Her collection of algal specimens is house in the herbarium of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.[6]: 9 

Author abbreviation

The standard author abbreviation M.T.Martin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

Works

• Martin, Margaret T. (August 1936). "The structure and reproduction of Chaetangium saccatum (Lam.) J. Ag.-I. Vegetative structure and male plants". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 148 (3): 165–181. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1936.tb00113.x.
• Martin, Margaret T. (October 1939). "The structure and reproduction of Chaetangium saccatum (Lamour.) J. Ag.-II. Female plants". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany. 52 (342): 115–144. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1939.tb01599.x.
• Martin, Margaret T.; Pocock, M. A. (January 1947). "Some South African Rhodophyceae. II. Helminthora Furcellata (Reinbold Apud Tyson), Comb. Nov". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 31 (4): 371–379. Bibcode:1947TRSSA..31..371M. doi:10.1080/00359194709518947.
• Martin, Margaret T.; Pocock, Mary A. (October 1953). "South African parasitic Florideae and their hosts. 2. Some South African parasitic Florideae". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany. 55 (356): 48–64. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1953.tb00003.x.

References

1. "Martin, Margaret Trevena (1905-) on JSTOR". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
2. Newroth, P.R.; Taylor, A.R.A. (December 1968). "The distribution of Ceratocolax hartzii". British Phycological Bulletin. 3 (3): 543–546. doi:10.1080/00071616800650161.
3. "Drew [married name Baker], Kathleen Mary (1901–1957), phycologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94193. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 25 March 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. London, Linnean Society of (1937). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
5. British Phycological Bulletin. 1960. p. 398. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
6. Cleal, Christopher J; Pardoe, Heather S; Slade, Katherine; Whyman, Sally; Tangney, Raymond S; Jüttner Department, Ingrid (2021). "The Welsh National Herbarium". Botany Letters. 169 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1080/23818107.2021.1977178.
7. International Plant Names Index.  M.T.Martin.