According to Wikipedia, Bernt Arne Lynge was a Norwegian botanist. He specialized in lichen, in particular species from the Arctic and Antarctica. Lynge was born at Lyngør in Aust-Agder, Norway. After graduation, he was employed as an assistant in the University of Oslo Botanical Garden and later curator at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. He was appointed professor of botany at the University of Oslo from 1935. Lynge was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science. His publications included Studies on the Lichen Flora of Norway and Vascular Plants from Novaya Semlyen . The Spitsbergen glacier Lyngebreen is named after him.
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Published Works
Lichens from north east Greenland : collected on the Norwegian Scientific Expeditions in 1929 and 1930. I (1932) (22)
The Peltigeraceae in the Copenhagen Arctic Herbarium (1928) (17)
Lichens from Spitsbergen. I (8)
Lichens from Bear Island (Bjørnøya) : collected by Norwegian and Swedish expeditions, chiefly by Th.M. Fries during the Swedish Polar Expedition of 1868 (7)
On Dufourea and Dactylina : three Arctic Lichens (1933) (6)
Lichens from Southeast Greenland : collected chiefly by P. F. Scholander in 1932 during the Norwegian Expedition in the S/S "Polaris" (1937) (6)
A revision of the genus Rhizocarpon (Ram.) Th. Fr. in Greenland (1932) (6)
Lichens collected on the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Franz Josef Land 1930 (1931) (5)
Lichens from Jan Mayen : collected on Norwegian expeditions in 1929 and 1930 (1939) (5)
Lichens from south east Greenland : collected in 1931 on Norwegian expeditions (1932) (2)
A small contribution to the lichen flora of the eastern Svalbard islands: lichens collected by Mr. Olaf Hanssen in 1930 (1939) (2)
