Ihor Olshanskyi
Data of Birth: 1982-07-15
Place of Birth: Pisky, Myrhorod district, Poltava oblast, Ukraine
Education: Higher Education Degree – ryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav, 2006
Professional career:
2006-2009 – Postgraduate student of the Departament of Systematics and Floristics of Vascular Plants (M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany)
2009-2011 – Junior Research Fellow
2012-2014 – Researcher
2015- present time – Senior Research Fellow
E-mail: olshansky1982@ukr.net
Membership: Ukrainian Botanical Society
Main scientific interests: plants systematic (Juncaceae, Betulaceae, etc.), flora of Ukraine, biodiversity, phytogeography.
Selected Publications
Olshanskyi I.G., Shiyan N.M., Antonenko S.I. 2025. New nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus, and two new names in Cenchrus and Elymus (Poaceae). Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 82(6): 552–555. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj82.06.552
Peregrym M.M., Olshanskyi I.G. 2025. New nomenclatural combinations in Cleome sensu stricto (Cleomaceae) from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 82(1): 46–49. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj82.01.046
Olshanskyi I.G. 2025. Plants of Zamkova Hora (Castle Hill) in Kyiv. Chornomorski Botanical Journal, 21(4): 365–377. (In Ukrainian) https://doi.org/10.32999/ksu1990-553X/2025-21-4-5
Olshanskyi I., Tasenkevich L., Seniv M. 2024. Authentic specimens of Juncaceae names stored in the Herbarium of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Studia Biologica, 18(1): 171–180. https://doi.org/10.30970/sbi.1801.754
Olshanskyi I.G. 2023. ×Kengdoroegneria, nothogen. nov., and new nomenclatural combinations in Triticeae (Poaceae). Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 80(2): 128-132. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj80.02.128
Olshanskyi I.G., Antonenko S.I. 2023. A new nomenclatural combination in Reynoutria (Polygonaceae). Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 80(2): 133–135. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj80.02.133
Olshanskyi I.G. 2023. (282) Proposal to amend Article 60 Note 4 by specifying possible options of the grammatical gender and number of epithets honouring certain non-binary persons. Taxon, 72(3): 697-698. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12955
Olshanskyi I. 2023. Hybrids of monocots in the flora of Ukraine: Preliminary synopsis. Biosystems Diversity, 31(4), 420–427. https://doi.org/10.15421/012350
Olshanskyi I. 2022. ×Asterron, nom. nov., a replacement name for ×Asterigeron Tzvelev, and ×Asterron ucrainicus, comb. nov. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 79(4): 203-204. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj79.04.203
Onyshchenko V.A., Mosyakin S.L., Korotchenko I.A., Danylyk I.M., Burlaka M.D., Fedoronchuk M.M., Chorney I.I., Kish R.Ya., Olshanskyi I.H., Shiyan N.M., Zhygalova S.L., Tymchenko I.A., Kolomiychuk V.P., Novikov A.V., Boiko G.V., Shevera M.V., Protopopova V.V. 2022. IUCN Red List categories of vascular plant species of the Ukrainian flora. / ed. by V.A. Onyshchenko. Kyiv: FOP Huliaeva V.M. Publ., 198 pp.
Danylyk I.M., Olshanskyi I.G. 2021. Synopsis of the order Juncales (Liliopsida) in Ukraine. Biosystems Diversity, 29(4), 354-366. https://doi.org/10.15421/012145
Olshanskyi I., Shynder O. 2021. Nothospecies ×Sorbaronia fallax (Rosaceae) in the flora of Ukraine. Chornomorski Botanical Journal, 17(2): 119–133. (In Ukrainian). https://doi.org/10.32999/ksu1990-553X/2021-17-2-3
Tarieiev A., Olshanskyi I. 2020. Short notice concerning the current conservation status of dark-barked birch taxa and the proposed changes to the next edition of the Red Book of Ukraine. Plant Introduction, 87/88: 104-107. https://doi.org/10.46341/PI2020034
Olshanskyi I.G., Mosyakin S.L. 2019. (2719) Proposal to conserve the name Betula humilis Schrank against B. humilis Marshall (Betulaceae). Taxon 68(5): 1121-1122. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12145
Tarieiev A., Olshanskyi I., Gailing O., Krutovsky K.V. 2019. Taxonomy of dark- and white-barked birches related to Betula pendula and B. pubescens (Betulaceae) in Ukraine based on both morphological traits and DNA markers. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 191(1): 142-154.
Danylyk I.M., Olshanskyi I.G., Zhygalova S.L. 2017. A new nomenclatural combination in Schoenoplectiella (Cyperaceae). Phytotaxa 299(1): 138-140.
Zhygalova S.L., Olshanskyi I.G. 2014. Hugo Zapalowicz’s species of Iris and Gladiolus (Iridaceae): Typification of his names. Phytotaxa 163(1): 59-60.
Olshanskyi I.G., Shyian N.M., Tarieiev A.S. 2016. Types of Betula (Betulaceae) names described from Ukraine and deposited in the National herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Укр. бот. журн. 73(4): 401-403.
