Bernard Hyland Scientist
Bernard Hyland (Bernard Patrick Matthew Hyland, born 1937), known as Bernie Hyland, has a long career as an Australian botanist. He has contributed significantly to understanding of Australian plants especially rainforest plants. His contributions include many activities. He has collected eighteen thousand specimens. He has named and scientifically described hundreds of species, especially species of his home and workplace the Wet Tropics of Queensland. He has particular expertise in the Australian rainforests’ rich diversity of species of the plant families Lauraceae and Myrtaceae. For instance, his Lauraceae 1989 major revision of seven genera of one hundred and fifteen species, and his rainforest Myrtaceae 1983 major revision of seventy species of the Syzygium genus and allied genera.