Swedish botanist and lichenologist (1927-2014).
Per Hans Bengt Runemark (7 January 1927 – 11 December 2014) was a Swedish botanist and lichenologist who served as professor of systematic botany at Lund University from 1970 to 1992. Born in Chicago, USA, he graduated from Lund University in 1956 with pioneering research on the lichen genus Rhizocarpon, introducing paper chromatography to lichenological taxonomy. Despite his brief career in lichenology, his multidisciplinary approach established new standards for monographic research in the field. Runemark later shifted his focus to studying evolutionary patterns of vascular plants in the Aeg