Józef Motyka

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Józef Motyka
Born(1900-03-23)23 March 1900
Botanist, lichenologist
Notable workPublished a total of four textbooks, six monographs, 54 papers, and two general-audience books

Józef Motyka (23 March 1900 – 6 July 1984) was a Polish

botanist and lichenologist
.

Early live and education

Motyka was born on 23 March 1900 in

PhD in 1925 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
for his studies on the ecology of saxicolous lichens (growing on or living among rocks) in Europe.

Early career

Afterwards, he spent several years researching the large lichen genus

Lwow. In 1944 he returned to his birthplace, Kąclowa, and began teaching at the Gymnasium in nearby Grybów. A year later Motyka was appointed as Director of the Plant Geography and Systematics department at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and soon after became an associate professor. For the next decade he worked largely on the distribution and ecology of vascular plants.[1]

Publications

Returning to work on lichens in the mid-1950s, Motyka studied Poland's lichen flora and published papers on the families Parmeliaceae, Cladoniaceae, Acarosporaceae, Umbilicariaceae, and Thelocarpaceae. He became a full Professor in 1960. He eventually published a total of four textbooks, six monographs, 54 papers, and two general-audience books.

Motyka's draft manuscripts on the lecanoroid lichens were published posthumously in 1995–1996 by his daughter Maria Motyka-Zgłobicka and J. Sieminska, in a four-volume work titled Lecanoraceae. This massive work introduced more than 220 new species, and over 300

opera utique oppressa—a suppressed work that is not taxonomically valid.[2]

Recognition

Motyka was awarded the

Golden Cross of Merit for his academic work.[1]

Eponymous species

Several lichens have been named in honor of Józef Motyka:

The standard author abbreviation Motyka is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1017/S002428298500038X
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  2. doi:10.2307/1224654
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  3. ^ Hawkworth DL. (1971). "Regional studies in Alectoria (Lichenes) I. The Central and Southern African species". Botaniska Notiser. 124 (1): 122–128.
  4. doi:10.5586/am.1970.001
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  5. ^ Bystrek J, Wójciak H. (1994). "Usnea motykana Bystr. et Wójciak (Lichenes, Usneaceae), a new lichen species from the Carpathians". Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica. 39 (1): 117–20.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Motyka.
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