About Martin Roy Cheek
Born 1960. Martin Roy Cheek is a British botanist, taxonomist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
Martin Roy Cheek (born 1960) is a botanist and taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cheek attended the University of Reading, graduating with a B.Sc. in 1981 and a M.Sc. in 1983. He earned his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1989. and a more in-depth treatment of the Malesian species for Flora Malesiana in 2001.
In these and other works, Cheek has described a number of species new to science, often in collaboration with Jebb. These include: N. abalata, N. abgracilis, N. alzapan, N. argentii, N. hurrelliana, N. kitanglad, N. murudensis, N. ramos, N. robcantleyi, N. samar, N. thai, and N. ultra. Cheek and Jebb also raised N. macrophylla to species rank.
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