- Source: Carlos 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 (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
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
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