Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie

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Name scientific

Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 50: 207 (1918)

Preferred name

Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie

Taxonomy reference

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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Meudt, H.M. (2021)

Nomenclature

Authors

Petrie

Original authors

Petrie

Publication place

Petrie, D. 1918: Descriptions of new native flowering-plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 50: 207–211.

Year published

1918

Publication page

207

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Myosotis ×cinerascens

Etymology

The epithet cinerascens is Latin for greyish or ash grey (Stearn 1998) and refers to the colour of the plants.

Typification

Type: South Island. Limestone shingle-slip, Trelissick Basin, 730 m alt. L.Cockayne, 4 Feb. 1902 (lecto:WELTSP002585!*, left-hand specimen, designated by L.B.Moore in H.H.Allan (ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 818 (1961)); syn:South Island. Broken River, Canterbury Alps, ~2400 feet [730 m], Jan. 1893, D.Petrie s.n. (WELT SP002597/A!*, right-hand plant only).

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Boraginales

Family

Boraginaceae

Genus

Myosotis

Species

×cinerascens

Synonyms

Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore

Hybridisation

Hybrid name

Myosotis traversii var. cantabrica L.B.Moore × Myosotis colensoi (Kirk) J.F.Macbr.

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore

Description

Hairs on upper surface of rosette-lvs smoothly appressed, ± over-lapping, of varying lengths but none long, on undersurface all short, not retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong, narrowing to subacute tip; hairs on upper surface appressed, short, close together, on undersurface similar but shorter, interspersed with longer hooked hairs on uppermost lvs. Infl. elongating in fr., occ. with a lfy bract above the lowest bifurcation.