Carlos Lehnebach

New Zealand botanist

Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach

Born	1974 (age 49–50) 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.^[1] Lehnebach has a master's degree and a PhD from Massey University.^[2]^[3]

Lehnebach studies New Zealand orchids.^[4] As of January 2018, he has described seven new species of orchid and two species of forget-me-not (Myosotis) indigenous to New Zealand.^[5]

Career

Carlos Lehnebach has described multiple new plant species in the Orchidaceae and Boraginaceae. These include the following:

Myosotis (Boraginaceae)

Myosotis chaffeyorum Lehnebach
Myosotis mooreana Lehnebach

Corybas (Orchidaceae)

Corybas confusus Lehnebach
Corybas obscurus Lehnebach
Corybas sanctigeorgianus Lehnebach
Corybas vitreus Lehnebach
Corybas walliae Lehnebach

Gastrodia (Orchidaceae)

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.

The standard author abbreviation Lehnebach is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[6]

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