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)

Corybas (Orchidaceae)

Gastrodia (Orchidaceae)

Publications

Scholia has a profile for Carlos A. Lehnebach (Q21812821).
The standard author abbreviation Lehnebach is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  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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