| Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) Valdivia, Chile |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Massey University |
| Awards | Hatch Medal (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Lehnebach |
Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach is a New Zealand botanist. He is employed as a botany curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Lehnebach has a master's degree and a PhD from Massey University.
Lehnebach studies New Zealand orchids. As of January 2018, he has described seven new species of orchid and two species of forget-me-not (Myosotis) indigenous to New Zealand.
Career
Carlos Lehnebach has described multiple new plant species in the Orchidaceae and Boraginaceae. These include the following:
- Myosotis chaffeyorum Lehnebach
- Myosotis mooreana Lehnebach
- Corybas confusus Lehnebach
- Corybas obscurus Lehnebach
- Corybas sanctigeorgianus Lehnebach
- Corybas vitreus Lehnebach
- Corybas walliae Lehnebach
- Gastrodia cooperae Lehnebach & J.R.Rolfe
- Gastrodia molloyi Lehnebach & J.R.Rolfe
Publications
Scholia has a profile for Carlos Lehnebach (Q21812821).
- Lehnebach, Carlos A. (2003). "Preliminary checklist of the orchids of Chile". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 449–451. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2003.00240.x.
- Lehnebach, Carlos A. (2012). "Two new species of forget-me-nots (Myosotis, Boraginaceae) from New Zealand". PhytoKeys (16): 53–64 https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.16.3602. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.16.3602. PMC 3492931. PMID 23233811.
- Lehnebach, Carlos A.; Zeller, Andreas J.; Frericks, Jonathan; Ritchie, Peter (2016). "Five new species of Corybas (Diurideae, Orchidaceae) endemic to New Zealand & phylogeny of the Nematoceras clade". Phytotaxa. 270: 1–24 https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.1. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.1.
- Lehnebach, Carlos A.; Rolfe, Jeremy R.; Gibbins, Jasmine; Ritchie, Peter (2016). "Two new species of Gastrodia (Gastrodieae, Orchidaceae) endemic to New Zealand". Phytotaxa. 277 (3): 237–254 https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.277.3.2. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.277.3.2.
References
- Dickey, Delwyn (22 December 2017). "Red, white and yellow - the colours of Christmas". Stuff. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
- Lehnebach, Carlos (2002). Pollination ecology of New Zealand orchids (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/11113.
- Lehnebach, Carlos (2008). Phylogenetic affinities, species delimitation and adaptive radiation of New Zealand Ranunculus (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/787.
- White, Rebekah (September 2019). "Ghost hunter". New Zealand Geographic (159).
- "Rare forget-me-nots discovered in the mountains of New Zealand". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
- International Plant Names Index. Lehnebach.
External links
- "Author Details for Carlos Lehnebach" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI).
- Lehnebach interviewed on RNZ Our Changing World, 1 December 2016