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Myosotis hikuwai Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers

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Myosotis hikuwai Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers in Meudt & Prebble, Austral. Syst. Bot. 35: 382 (2022)
Myosotis hikuwai Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers
Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M. 2022: Morphological analyses support recognition of three new threatened species of bracteate–prostrate Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany 35(5): 364–394.

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New Zealand
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Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers
Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers
Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M. 2022: Morphological analyses support recognition of three new threatened species of bracteate–prostrate Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany 35(5): 364–394.
2022
382
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species
Myosotis hikuwai
The epithet hikuwai refers to the Hikuwai Conservation Area where the only known population of this plant is from, and was considered to be an appropriate name for the new species by our Ngāi Tahu contacts in the relevant rohe (region). In te reo Māori, hikuwai means ‘source of a stream’ (Williams 1957) and may refer to the source of the Clutha River / Mata-Au.
Holotype: NEW ZEALAND: South Island: Otago, Wānaka, Clutha River / Mata-Au, 4 Nov. 2019, G. Rogers s.n. (WELT SP108906)

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Myosotis
hikuwai

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Myosotis hikuwai Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers
Myosotis hikuwai Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers
Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M. (2022)
Myosotis hikuwai Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers

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typification
Holotype: NEW ZEALAND: South Island: Otago, Wānaka, Clutha River / Mata-Au, 4 Nov. 2019, G. Rogers s.n. (WELT SP108906)
Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M. 2022: Morphological analyses support recognition of three new threatened species of bracteate–prostrate Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany 35(5): 364–394.
Etymology
The epithet hikuwai refers to the Hikuwai Conservation Area where the only known population of this plant is from, and was considered to be an appropriate name for the new species by our Ngāi Tahu contacts in the relevant rohe (region). In te reo Māori, hikuwai means ‘source of a stream’ (Williams 1957) and may refer to the source of the Clutha River / Mata-Au.
Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M. 2022: Morphological analyses support recognition of three new threatened species of bracteate–prostrate Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany 35(5): 364–394.

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7 October 2022
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