Ryszard Ochyra (born 1949) is a Polish bryologist. He has focused on moss systematics of the Southern Hemisphere, specifically in the families

Amblystegiaceae Amblystegiaceae is a family of mosses. It includes 20 to 30 genera with a total of up to 150 species. *'' Jankuceraea'' Ignatov & Ignatova2022 *'' Kandaea'' Jan Kučera & Hedenäs2020 *'' Koponenia'' Ochyra1985 *'' Larrainia'' W.R. Buck2015 *'' ...

Dicranaceae Dicranaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses ( Dicranidae) in class Bryopsida. Species within this family are dioicous. Genera in this family include '' Dicranum'', '' Dicranoloma'', and '' Mitrobryum''. Classification The family Dicranac ...

Grimmiaceae Grimmiaceae is a family (biology), family of mosses in the order Grimmiales. Genera World Flora Online lists the following genera: * ''Bucklandiella'' * ''Codriophorus'' * ''Coscinodon'' * ''Grimmia'' * ''Guembelia'' * ''Leucoperichaetium' ...

, and Seligeriaceae. Throughout his career, he has described 48 species of moss considered new to science.

Biography

Ochyra was born on 10 September 1949 in Rozbórz, Poland. He studied biology at

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

, and remained at the university for his post-graduate work. He obtained his masters in botany in 1972 while studying under , and earned his doctorate in 1976. He took part in the Fourth Antarctic Expedition of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he studied bryology on King George Island from 1979 to 1980. He was based on

Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station ( Polish: ''Polska Stacja Antarktyczna im. Henryka Arctowskiego'') is a Polish research station on King George Island, off the coast of Antarctica. History The station is named for Henryk Arctowski (18 ...

. In 1986, Ochyra married Halina Bednarek-Ochyra, a noted bryologist and botanist. Together they have undertook several bryological expeditions and made large contributions to the herbarium of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

Legacy

In 1986, botanist and mycologist

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

the moss genus '' Ochyraea'', which is in the family Amblystegiaceae and named in Rysard's honor.

Works

Between 1974 and 2019, Ochyra published 1,580 works. He has described or coauthored 48 new species of moss. Between 1978 and 2000, Ochyra co-edited and distributed five bryophyte

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

series, among others ''Bryophyta Antarctica exsiccata''.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2025 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.

References

Botanists with author abbreviations 1949 births 20th-century Polish botanists Living people Bryologists 21st-century Polish botanists {{Poland-scientist-stub