Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach is a New Zealand botanist. He is employed as a botany curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Lehnebach has a master's degree and a PhD from Massey University.
Lehnebach studies New Zealand orchids. As of January 2018, he has described seven new species of orchid and two species of forget-me-not (Myosotis) indigenous to New Zealand.
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
References
External links
Lehnebach interviewed on RNZ Our Changing World, 1 December 2016