Carlos Lehnebach

{{Short description|New Zealand botanist}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2025}}

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/100014768/red-white-and-yellow--the-colours-of-christmas|title=Red, white and yellow – the colours of Christmas|last=Dickey|first=Delwyn|date=22 December 2017|website=Stuff|language=en|access-date=2019-09-05}} Lehnebach has a master's degree and a PhD from Massey University.{{cite thesis |last=Lehnebach |first=Carlos |year=2002 |type=Masters thesis |title=Pollination ecology of New Zealand orchids |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/11113}}{{cite thesis |last=Lehnebach |first=Carlos |year=2008 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Phylogenetic affinities, species delimitation and adaptive radiation of New Zealand Ranunculus |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |hdl=10179/787}}

Lehnebach studies New Zealand orchids.{{Cite journal|last=White|first=Rebekah|date=September 2019|title=Ghost hunter|url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/ghost-hunter/|journal=New Zealand Geographic|issue=159}} As of January 2018, he has described seven new species of orchid and two species of forget-me-not (Myosotis) indigenous to New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2012-08-rare-forget-me-nots-mountains-zealand.html|title=Rare forget-me-nots discovered in the mountains of New Zealand|website=phys.org|language=en-us|access-date=2019-09-05}}

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

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  • {{cite journal |last1=Lehnebach |first1=Carlos A. |date=2003 |title=Preliminary checklist of the orchids of Chile |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=143 |issue = 4|pages= 449–451 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2003.00240.x |doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Lehnebach |first1=Carlos A. |date=2012 |title=Two new species of forget-me-nots (Myosotis, Boraginaceae) from New Zealand |journal=PhytoKeys |issue=16 |pages=53–64 https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.16.3602 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.16.3602 |pmid=23233811 |pmc=3492931 |doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Lehnebach |first1=Carlos A. |last2=Zeller |first2=Andreas J. |last3=Frericks |first3=Jonathan |last4=Ritchie |first4=Peter |date=2016 |title=Five new species of Corybas (Diurideae, Orchidaceae) endemic to New Zealand & phylogeny of the Nematoceras clade |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=270|pages= 1–24 https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.1|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.1 |doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Lehnebach |first1=Carlos A. |last2=Rolfe |first2=Jeremy R. |last3=Gibbins |first3=Jasmine |last4=Ritchie |first4=Peter |date=2016 |title=Two new species of Gastrodia (Gastrodieae, Orchidaceae) endemic to New Zealand. |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=277|issue=3 |pages= 237–254 https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.277.3.2|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.277.3.2 |doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal | last1=Frericks | first1=Jonathan | last2=Munkacsi | first2=Andrew | last3=Ritchie | first3=Peter | last4=Luo | first4=Yi-Bo | last5=Lehnebach | first5=Carlos A. | title=Phylogenetic affinities and in vitro seed germination of the threatened New Zealand orchid Spiranthes novae-zelandiae | journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany | volume=56 | issue=1 | date=2018| issn=0028-825X | doi=10.1080/0028825X.2017.1418398 | doi-access=free | pages=91–108 | bibcode=2018NZJB...56...91F | url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Phylogenetic_affinities_and_i_in_vitro_i_seed_germination_of_the_threatened_New_Zealand_orchid_i_Spiranthes_novae-zelandiae_i_/5844471/1/files/10355706.pdf | access-date=10 February 2025}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Nadarajan |first1=Jayanthi |last2=van der Walt |first2=Karin |last3=Lehnebach |first3=Carlos A. |last4=Saeiahagh |first4=Hassan |last5=Pathirana |first5=Ranjith |title=Integrated ex situ conservation strategies for endangered New Zealand Myrtaceae species |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=59 |issue=1 |date=2 January 2021 |issn=0028-825X |doi=10.1080/0028825X.2020.1754245 |doi-access=free |pages=72–89|bibcode=2021NZJB...59...72N }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Van der Walt |first1=Karin |last2=Alderton-Moss |first2=Jennifer |last3=Lehnebach |first3=Carlos A. |title=Cross-pollination and pollen storage to assist conservation of Metrosideros bartlettii (Myrtaceae), a critically endangered tree from Aotearoa New Zealand |journal=Pacific Conservation Biology |volume=29 |issue=2 |date=1 March 2022 |issn=1038-2097 |doi=10.1071/PC21054 |doi-access=free |pages=141–152 |url=https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC21054 |access-date=17 December 2024}}
  • {{cite journal | last1=Lehnebach | first1=Carlos A. | last2=Alderton-Moss | first2=Jennifer | last3=Shepherd | first3=Lara D. | title=A new species of Prasophyllum (Orchidaceae) for New Zealand and lectotypification of P. colensoi | journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany | date=2025 | volume=0 | issn=0028-825X | doi=10.1080/0028825X.2025.2454582 | pages=1–23 | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0028825X.2025.2454582?src= | access-date=2025-02-12| url-access=subscription }}

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