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Myosotis concinna Cheeseman

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Myosotis concinna Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 17: 235 (1885)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
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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New Zealand
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Cheeseman
Cheeseman
Cheeseman, T.F. 1885: New species of plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 17: 235–236.
1885
235
Myosotis (Exarrhena) concinna
ICN
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
species
Myosotis concinna
The epithet is derived from the Latin concinnus and means neat, pretty or elegant (Stearn 1998).
Type: South Island. Mount Owen, Nelson, alt. 4500 feet (1370 m), T.F.Cheeseman s.n. (lecto, designated by L. B.Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl.New Zealand 1: 828 (1961): AK 7549!*; isolecto: WELT SP002360!; syn: South Island. Mount Owen, Nelson, alt. 3500 feet (1065 m), Jan. 1882, T.F.Cheeseman s.n. (AK 7548! and AK 210592!*). Excluded syn: South Island. Mount Arthur, alt. 4000 feet (1200 m), T.F.Cheeseman s.n., represent M. brockiei subsp. brockiei (note there are two specimens at AK that match the locality and collector information from the original description but they are both dated ‘Jan. 1886’, which postdates Cheeseman (1885; AK 7550!, AK 221074!)).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Myosotis
concinna

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

Myosotis concinna Cheeseman

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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Myosotis concinna Cheeseman

Rosette lvs narrowly elliptic-spathulate; hairs finely silky, appressed, ± overlapping, abaxially regularly retrorse. Lateral branches ascending; stem lvs > lower internodes. Cymes ebracteate, usually branched, many-flowered, compact. Calyx narrow; lobes c. 1/2 length. Fls scented. Corolla yellow, to 12 mm diam.; tube cylindric to above calyx; filaments long and conspicuous.

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Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Meudt, H.M. (2021)
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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typification
Type: South Island. Mount Owen, Nelson, alt. 4500 feet (1370 m), T.F.Cheeseman s.n. (lecto, designated by L. B.Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl.New Zealand 1: 828 (1961): AK 7549!*; isolecto: WELT SP002360!; syn: South Island. Mount Owen, Nelson, alt. 3500 feet (1065 m), Jan. 1882, T.F.Cheeseman s.n. (AK 7548! and AK 210592!*). Excluded syn: South Island. Mount Arthur, alt. 4000 feet (1200 m), T.F.Cheeseman s.n., represent M. brockiei subsp. brockiei (note there are two specimens at AK that match the locality and collector information from the original description but they are both dated ‘Jan. 1886’, which postdates Cheeseman (1885; AK 7550!, AK 221074!)).
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
The epithet is derived from the Latin concinnus and means neat, pretty or elegant (Stearn 1998).
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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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
24 May 2021
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