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Many botanists study a broad array of plant groups, and others specialize on particular groups or clusters of plants. Included here are those botanists who have published a significant number of research works focused on mosses, liverworts and/or hornworts, as well as lichens. Also included are others who may not have published extensively on bryophytes, but are known for their collections of bryophytes. It should be noted that many bryologists are also pteridologists (q.v.), and also come under the broader category of cryptogamic specialists. |
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1881 - 1966 
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Emma N. Andersen Emma N. Anderson was an American bryologist and faculty member at University of Nebraska College of Agriculture. |
1912 - 2007 
Lewis Anderson Lewis E. Anderson was an American bryologist, cytologist, and educator regarded as an expert in North American mosses. |
1878 - 1961 
Albert Andrews A. Leroy Andrews was an American linguist and bryologist on the faculty of Cornell University, and editor of The Bryologist. |
1941 - 2020 
Richard E. Andrus Richard E. Andrus was an American bryologist, educator, and environmentalist on the faculty of Binghamton University, who integrated concepts of sustainable agriculture into his teaching of environmental science. |
1848 - 1932 
Hampus Arnell Hampus Wilhelm Arnell was a Swedish bryologist, pteridologist, and schoolteacher who was a Privat-Docent at University of Uppsala. |
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1831 - 1880 
Coe Austin Coe Finch Austin was an American bryologist in the late 19th Century, a founding member of the Torrey Botanical Club. He was curator of the Columbia College Herbarium (1859-1863). His most noted publication was Musci Appalachiani, a treatise on the mosses of the eastern US. Austin's moss types are at the Columbia University Herbarium. |
1858 - 1910 
Charles Barnes Charles Reid Barnes, a close associate of John Merle Coulter, was an American bryologist best known for having coined the term "photosynthesis" in 1893. |
1878 - 1964 
Edwin Bartram Edwin B. Bartram was an American bryologist who published on tropical and subtropical mosses from several regions, including Mexico, Guatemala, and the Philippines. Hise extensive collection of ca. 75,000 specimens was mainly deposited at the Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University. |
1837 - 1917 
Sven Berggren Sven Berggren was a Swedish plant collector, explorer, and professor who collected in parts of the world that were then little-known to Europeans such as Svalbard, Greenland, Hawaii, California, and Australasia. |
1828 - 1903
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Emile Bescherelle Emile Bescherelle was a French bryologist. In a letter to J.M. Holzinger, Bescherelle indicated that he was interested in "the mosses of the whole world." |
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1846 - 1926 
George Best George Newton Smith was an American bryologist who revised several genera of North American mosses. |
1888 - 1964 
Hugo Blomquist Hugo Blomquist was a Swedish-born American pteridologist, bryologist and general plant taxonomist. He was a professor at Duke University and spent a sabbatic year at Cornell University, where he became acquainted with the sphagnum expert, A. Leroy Andrews. |
1873 - 1945
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Alfred Brinkman Alfred Brinkman was an English-Canadian plant collector and amateur bryologist who collected in Great Britain and British Columbia, primarily. |
1858 - 1934 
Elizabeth Britton Elizabeth G. Britton was an American bryologist known for being one of the founding leaders of The New York Botanical Garden. |
1849 - 1929
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Viktor Brotherus Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus was a Finnish schoolteacher and bryologist known for his expertise in mosses from all regions, for which he created a taxonomic system. His personal herbarium of some 120,000 specimens was deposited at University of Helsinki (H-BR). |
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1866 - 1961 
Margaret S. Brown Margaret S. Brown was a Canadian bryologist specializing in bryophytes of Nova Scotia. |
1908 - 2001 
Babette Brown Babette I. Brown Coleman was an American botanist and plant collector on the faculty of University of Rochester, New York. She specialized in bryology and lichenology nad contributed significantly to the Cornell University herbaria while under the tutelage of Walter C. Muenscher. |
1870 - 1943 
Stewart Burnham Stewart Henry Burnham donated his herbarium of 75,000 specimens, some of which formed the basis of his Flora of the Town of Southold, Long Island and Gardiner's Island to Cornell University, was the Assistant New York State Botanist under Charles S. Peck from 1903-1913, and was the Assistant Curator at the Cornell Herbarium for 20 years. |
1860 - 1934 
Jules Cardot Jules Cardot was a French bryologist who published extensively on the mosses of North America from the 1880s to the 1920s and was a leading expert on mosses of Antarctica. |
1871 - 1936 
Lucy Cavanagh Lucy Cavanaugh was an American schoolteacher and bryologist with expertise in the moss flora of Iowa. She became Assistant Curator of Iowa State University Herbarium. |
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1878 - 1925 
Edward Chamberlain Edward Blanchard Chamberlain was an American bryologist, plant collector, and schoolteacher who was one of the founding members of the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine. |
1858 - 1938 
Lellen Cheney Lellan S. Cheney was an American professor of botany at University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 1891-1903, during which time he also served as curator at the Wisconsin State Herbarium. He left teaching to farm, and leaving that profession went on to become a prospector, newspaper reporter, school superindendent, and assistant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
1884 - 1967 
Lois Clark Lois Clark was an American bryologist and taxonomic expert on the genus Frullania who worked mostly in the northwestern United States |
1860 - 1925 
Ida Clendenin Ida May Clendenin Atchison was an American secondary school teacher in Brooklyn, New York who described the fungal species Synchytrium geranii in 1895. |
1874 - 1971 
Henry Conard Henry Shoemaker Conard was an American bryologist and conservatonist with a long career for 2/3 of the 20th Century |
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1854 - 1932
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Alice L. Crockett Alice L. Crockett was an American bryologist working in Maine in the early 20th century. |
1922 - 2002 
Howard Crum Howard A. Crum was an American bryologist and educator on the faculty of University of Michigan who in 1981 published Mosses of Eastern North America with L.E. Anderson. |
1929 - 2003 
William Culberson William Louis Culberson was a well-known and prolific American lichenologist in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. |
1855 - 1906 
Clara Cummings Clara Eaton Cummings was a cryptogamic botanist who collected in Jamaica, and who determined the Alaskan lichen collections made by members of the Harriman Expedition of 1899. |
1875 - 1964 
Henry Darlington Henry T. Darlington was an American bryologist, botanist, and educator on the faculty of Michigan State University. |
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1861 - 1944 
Hugh Dixon Hugh Neville Dixon was an English bryologist and expert on the moss flora of the British Isles. |
1910 - 1987 
Robert Drexler Robert V. Drexler was an American bryologist and mycologist for whom the R.V. Drexler Herbarium was named, at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
1793 - 1835 
Thomas Drummond Thomas Drummond was a Scottish botanist and plant collector who was an assistant on Sir John Franklin's second land expedition (United States and Canada), and later collected extensively in Texas. |
1868 - 1959 
Alexander W. Evans Alexander William Evans was an American bryologist whose worked spanned the late 19th and first half of the 20th Century. |
1861 - 1930 
Richard Fleischer Richard Fleischer was an German bryologist and plant collector who also was a well-known painter. |
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1904 - 1999 
Margaret Fulford Margaret Fulford was an American professor and bryologist who studied the leafy hepatics and served as curator of the hepatics herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society. |
1867 - 1947 
Abel Grout Abel J. Grout was an American educator and bryologist who notably published Moss Flora of North America, North of Mexico in 1940. |
1871 - 1959 |
1822 - 1882 
Elihu Hall Elihu Hall was a self-educated American surveyor and authority on local plants in Menard County, Illinois who accompanied C.C. Parry on an expedition to Colorado in 1862. |
1884 - 1964 
Thore Halle Thore Gustav Halle was a Swedish paleobotanist, bryologist and plant collector who worked on Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits, including in South America and China. He also collected a large number of living bryophytes particularly from the region of Stockholm |
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1916 - 2008 
Alton Harvill Alton McCaleb Harvill was an American plant geographer and bryologist on the faculty of Longwood University, where he established the Harvill-Stevens Herbarium. He was regarded a foremost expert on the flora of Virginia. |
1858 - 1951 
Caroline Haynes Caroline Haynes was an American hepaticologist who was active in the Sullivant Moss Society and provided financial and intellectual support to others in her field of study. |
1853 - 1929 
John Holzinger John Michael Holzinger was a German-American bryologist who collected extensively in North America. |
1875 - 1932 
Reginald Howe Reginald Heber Howe was an American schoolteacher, ornithologist, entomologist, and lichenologist. He studied lichens of the northeastern USA as well as more focused monographic studies on Ramalina and Usnea. |
1785 - 1815
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Ellen Hutchins Ellen Hutchins was an Irish plant collector and botanical illustrator. She is considered to be Ireland's first female botanist. Ellen died at the age of 29 due to chronic illness probably exacerbated by treatments with mercury |
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1932 - 1989 
Hiroshi Inoue Hiroshi Inoue was a Japanese bryologist and taxonomist specializing in liverworts. |
1931 - 2016 
Pekka Isoviita Pekka Isoviita was a Finnish bryologist on the faculty of University of Helsinki. |
1877 - 1964 
Otto Jennings Otto E. Jennings was an American pteridologist, bryologist, and paleobotanist who was employed by the Carnegie Museum and was on the faculty of University of Pittsburgh. His interests included floras of Pennsylvania and of Cuba, with publications including A Contribution to the Botany of the Isle of Pines (1917) and Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin (1953). |
1865 - 1942 
William Land W.J.G. Land was an American plant morphologist and anatomist with special interest in the cryptogams, who taught botany and laboratory technique at the University of Chicago for many years. |
1902 - 1966 
Richard Laubengayer Richard A. Laubengayer was a bryologist, educator, and textbook author who began his career studying corn morphology and anatomy at Cornell University. |
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1896 - 1993 
Elva Lawton Elva Lawton was an American botanist and bryologist who specialized in western American mosses. |
1806 - 1889 
Leo Lesquereux Charles Leo Lesquereux was a pioneering Swiss-American paleobotanist and bryologist. |
1907 - 2004 
Elbert Little |
1879 - 1927 
Annie Lorenz Annie Lorenz was a well-respected and published American bryologist, influenced as a young girl by the botanists George G. Kennedy and Edwin Faxon. |
1883 - 1978 
Rachel Lowe Rachel Lowe was an American botanist and plant collector with an especial interest in ferns and bryophytes. |
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1767 - 1849 
Charles Lyell Charles Lyell (Botanist) was a Scottish bryologist and lichenologist. Lyell also translated Dante. He should not be confused with his son, Charles Lyell the paleobotanist/geologist. |
1943 - 2004 
Celina M. Matteri Celina Matteri was an Argentine phycologist and bryologist working in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. |
1849 - 1934
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David McArdle David McArdle was an Irish clergyman and amateur bryologist who made significant collections in Ireland during the late 19th and early 20th century. |
1864 - 1927 
George Merrill George Knox Merrill was an American photographer, artist, journalist, and lichenologist who published extensively on American lichens. |
1928 - 2020 
Harvey Miller Harvey Alfred Miller was an American bryologist who specialized in the taxonomy and floristics of Hawaiian and other Pacific Island bryophytes. |
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1872 - 1920
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Mary Miller Mary Farnham Miller was an American bryologist from Washington D.C. who collected mosses in New England and was active in the Sullivant Moss Society. |
1942 - 2011
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Norton Miller Norton G. Miller was an American paleobotanist and bryologist, employed as botanist at the Gray Herbarium and the Arnold Arboretum (Harvard University), and later Curator of Bryology and Quaternary Paleobotany at the New York State Museum. |
1824 - 1901 
Charles Mohr Charles Theodore Mohr was a German-American pharmacist and botanist who settled in Alabama as a pharmacist, yet did much botanical work in that state and in Florida, publishing The Forests of Alabama and Their Products in 1879. His Plant Life of Alabama was published in 1901. |
1889 - 1972 
Ralph Nanz Ralph Nanz was an American bryologist and educator who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and served on the faculty of Carroll College. |
1882 - 1939 
George Nichols George Elwood Nichols was an American bryologist and professor of botany at Yale University. |
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1910 - 1999 
Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was an American botanist, bryologist and librarian who was noted for helping to establish libraries throughout the world. Parker worked for the Rockefeller Foundation as a librarian in the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP project) in Mexico from 1947-1958. While in Mexico, Parker published on the hepatics of the Federal District. From 1958-1959, she was stationed in India, then returned to the U.S. and worked in New York City until her retirement in 1970. |
1869 - 1933 
Charles Plitt Charles P. Plitt was an American public school teacher and lichenologist from Maryland, who kept detailed notes on his more than 3000 botanical excursions in the Baltimore area between 1899 and 1922. Plitt's private lichen collection of more that 10,000 specimens is now at the U.S.D.A.'s National Agricultural Library. |
1929 - 2017 
Michael Proctor Michael Charles Faraday Proctor PhD>/b> was an English plant ecologist, bryologist, and pollination biologist on the faculty of University of Exeter. |
1926 - 2018 
Paul L. Redfearn Paul L. Redfearn was an American bryologist and plant collector on the faculty of Missouri State University. He also served as mayor of Springfield, Missouri, from 1978-1981. |
1928 - 2002 
William Reese William Dean Reese was an American bryologist on the faculty of University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He specialized in tropical Calymperaceae, and authored more floristic bryological works such as Mosses of the Gulf Coast (1984). |
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1932 - 2020 
Harold Robinson Harold Ernest Robinson was an American bryologist, plant taxonomist, chemotaxonomist and entomologist. He was an expert in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Robinson, with his co-author King, promoted the utility of "microcharacters" in the taxonomy of Asteraceae, and together they named more than 2800 species. |
1911 - 1992 
Geneva Sayre Geneva Sayre was an American bryologist who worked on the moss genus Grimmia. |
1924 - 2000 
Wolfram Schultze-Motel Wolfram Shultze-Motel was a German plant taxonomist and bryologist. |
1921 - 2012 
Rudolf Schuster Rudolph "Rudy" Schuster, a German-American entomologist (M.S. from Cornell University) and highly productive hepaticologist, was the author of the six-volume The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America, east of the hundredth meridian. An avid collector worldwide, his personal herbarium is now at the Field Museum in Chicago. |
1904 - 1997 
Aaron Sharp Aaron J. Sharp was an American bryologist and hepaticologist on the faculty of University of Tennessee, whose geobotanical research gave early support to the theory of plate tectonics. Sharp had special interest in floristic connections between the floras of eastern Asia and eastern North America, and eastern Mexico and eastern North America. |
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1913 - 1968 
James Sinclair James Sinclair was a Scottish schoolteacher, botanist, phycologist, and bryologist who explored India and Pakistan after WWII, and eventually became Curator of the Herbarium, Botanic Gardens, Singapore. |
1817 - 1893 
Richard Spruce Richard Spruce was an English bryologist, explorer and plant collector who famously explored the Amazon basin, collecting plants for William Jackson Hooker. He also secured seeds and plants of cinchona, the source of quinine, for cultivation in India. |
1907 - 1989 
William Steere William C. Steere was an American bryologist, one of the best known and most prolific of the 20th Century. |
1919 - 2012 
Gladys Stewart Gladys Carroll Stewart was an American botanist, bryologist, and horticulturist who worked at the New York Botanical Garden and George Washington University. |
1940 - 2013 
Raymond Stotler Raymond E. Stotler was an American hepaticologist and bryologist on the faculty of Southern Illinois University. |
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Aravilla Taylor We know little about Aravilla Taylor other than what can be gleaned from her publications. Her work focused on the ecology of bryophytes, especially in New York state. |
1817 - 1886 
Edward Tuckerman Edward Tuckerman was an American lichenologist and professor of history and botany at Amherst College, Massachusetts. |
1858 - 1949 
Josef Velenovsky Josef Velenovsky was a Czech pteridologist, bryologist and mycologist. |
1918 - 2020 
William Weber Bill Weber was an American botanist and authority on lichens and mosses of the Galapagos Islands and of the Rocky Mountains. |
1896 - 1990 
Winona Welch Winona Hazel Welch was an American bryologist, the first woman to head the DePauw University Biology Department and the first female president of the Indiana Academy of Science. |
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1847 - 1927
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Harriet Wheeler Harriet Wheeler was an American collector of mosses in the northeastern United States, and a member of the Sullivant Moss Society. |
1859 - 1945 
Robert Williams Robert Statham Williams was an American bryologist who made the first ever moss collections in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush and later collected in the Amazon basin and the Philippines while in the employ of the New York Botanical Garden. |
1828 - 1880 
Johan Zetterstedt Johan Emanuel Zetterstedt was a Swedish botanist and bryologist whose collections mainly reside at the Natural History Museum, London (BM). |