> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1013](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190484) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8768-1) LSID 8768-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607578) QID Q21607578 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ryan, Elling (1849-1905), Norwegian botanist and pharmacist; pharmac. exam. 1871; later manager of a chemical factory at Graesvik nr Frederikstad; amateur bryologist. **Abbreviated name**: *Ryan* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ryan*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection O|O]] (original bryophyte herb.), [[Collection TRH|TRH]] (phan.); other material at [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection L|L]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 195 (b. 24 Oct 1849, d. 25 Apr 1905); BM 4: 1775; KR p. 609; Lenley p. 357; SBC p. 131; TL-2/2246, 2249, 2251. #### Biofile - Anon., Hedwigia 45: (38). 1906; Rev. bryol. 32(4): 84. 1905 (obit. not.). - Hagen, I., Fra E. Ryans mosherbarium Trondhjem 1907, 36 p., K. Norske Vid. Selsk. Skr. 1907, no. 1 (biogr., portr., description of herbarium). - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 11: 144. 1905 (d.). - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 516. 1977 (coll.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 185. 1905. #### Composite works With I. Hagen, *Iagttag. mosern. udbr.* 1896, see TL-2/2246. Sec also I. Hagen, *Musci Norvegiae borealis* 1899-1904, TL-2/2249. #### Eponymy *Ryanaea* A.P. de Candolle (1824, *orth. var.*) and *Ryania* M. Vahl (1796, *nom. cons.*) are both named for J. Ryan (*fl*. 1770-1790), plant collector.