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Carlos Lehnebach

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Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
Born1974 (age 49–50)
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materMassey University
AwardsHatch Medal (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsMuseum 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

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

Myosotis (Boraginaceae)

Corybas (Orchidaceae)

Gastrodia (Orchidaceae)

Publications

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Dickey, Delwyn (22 December 2017). "Red, white and yellow - the colours of Christmas". Stuff. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  2. ^ Lehnebach, Carlos (2002). Pollination ecology of New Zealand orchids (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/11113.
  3. ^ Lehnebach, Carlos (2008). Phylogenetic affinities, species delimitation and adaptive radiation of New Zealand Ranunculus (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/787.
  4. ^ White, Rebekah (September 2019). "Ghost hunter". New Zealand Geographic (159).
  5. ^ "Rare forget-me-nots discovered in the mountains of New Zealand". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Lehnebach.
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