Carlos Lehnebach Explained

Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
Birth Place:	Valdivia, Chile
Nationality:	New Zealand
Fields:	Botany
Workplaces:	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Alma Mater:	Massey University
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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

• Lehnebach . Carlos A. . 2003 . Preliminary checklist of the orchids of Chile . Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society . 143 . 4. 449–451 . 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2003.00240.x . free .
• 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 . 10.3897/phytokeys.16.3602 . 23233811 . 3492931 . free .
• 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. 10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.1 . free .
• 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. 10.11646/phytotaxa.277.3.2 . free .

External links

• • Lehnebach interviewed on RNZ Our Changing World, 1 December 2016

Notes and References

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