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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.

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Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
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Myosotis traversii
Hooker’s epithet traversii honours lawyer, explorer and naturalist William Thomas Locke Travers (1819–1903), who immigrated to New Zealand in 1849 with his family, and who teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1t105/travers-william-thomas-locke, accessed 22 March 2021).
Type: South Island. Discovery Peaks, 1860, Travers s.n. (lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 817 (1961): K 000787891!*, upper left-hand plant on sheet; syn: South Island. Wai-au in valley, s. dat., Travers s.n.; K [H2012/00752-13!], three plants upper right; South Island. Tarndale, Nelson, Jan. 1861, Sinclair s.n. (K [H2012/00752-13!] two plants upper left, and K000787893!

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Myosotis
traversii

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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Meudt, H.M. (2021)
Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
New Zealand
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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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typification
Type: South Island. Discovery Peaks, 1860, Travers s.n. (lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 817 (1961): K 000787891!*, upper left-hand plant on sheet; syn: South Island. Wai-au in valley, s. dat., Travers s.n.; K [H2012/00752-13!], three plants upper right; South Island. Tarndale, Nelson, Jan. 1861, Sinclair s.n. (K [H2012/00752-13!] two plants upper left, and K000787893!
Meudt, H.M. 2021: Taxonomic revision of five species groups of ebracteate-erect Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to New Zealand, based on morphology, and description of new subspecies. Australian Systematic Botany 34: 252–304.
Etymology
Hooker’s epithet traversii honours lawyer, explorer and naturalist William Thomas Locke Travers (1819–1903), who immigrated to New Zealand in 1849 with his family, and who teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1t105/travers-william-thomas-locke, accessed 22 March 2021).
Meudt, H.M. 2021: Taxonomic revision of five species groups of ebracteate-erect Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to New Zealand, based on morphology, and description of new subspecies. Australian Systematic Botany 34: 252–304.

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1 January 2000
24 May 2021
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