Carlos Lehnebach

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Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
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Born
Chile [1]
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma mater Massey University
AwardsHatch 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. [2] Lehnebach has a master's degree and a PhD from Massey University. [3] [4]

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Lehnebach studies New Zealand orchids. [5] As of January 2018, he has described seven new species of orchid and two species of forget-me-not ( Myosotis ) indigenous to New Zealand. [6]

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

The standard author abbreviation Lehnebach is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [7]

References

  1. "Dr Carlos Lehnebach". Te Papa . Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  2. Dickey, Delwyn (22 December 2017). "Red, white and yellow – the colours of Christmas". Stuff. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  3. Lehnebach, Carlos (2002). Pollination ecology of New Zealand orchids (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/11113.
  4. Lehnebach, Carlos (2008). Phylogenetic affinities, species delimitation and adaptive radiation of New Zealand Ranunculus (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/787.
  5. White, Rebekah (September 2019). "Ghost hunter". New Zealand Geographic (159).
  6. "Rare forget-me-nots discovered in the mountains of New Zealand". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  7. International Plant Names Index.  Lehnebach.