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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie

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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 50: 208 (1918)
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
Meudt, H.M.; Thorsen, M.J.; Prebble, J.M. 2020: Taxonomic revision of the Myosotis australis group (Boraginaceae) native to Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Australian Systematic Botany 33: 477–524.

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Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Meudt, H.M.; Thorsen, M.J.; Prebble, J.M. (2020)

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Petrie
Petrie
Petrie, D. 1918: Descriptions of new native flowering-plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 50: 207–211.
1918
208
Discussed in notes by Allan (1961), p. 818, in notes under Myosotis australis, as one of several "...ill-differentiated forms."Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.
ICN
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
species
Myosotis saxatilis
The species epithet is derived from Latin saxum (stone, rock), and means dwelling among rocks.
Holotype: Awatere, Shingly Range, on dry rock at perhaps 4000 feet [1220 m], Cockayne s.n. [annotated ‘Type’ in Petrie’s hand] (lecto: WELT SP002612!*, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 819 (1961)); Upper Awatere, Shingly Range, Cockayne s.n. (possible isolecto: WELT SP002610!).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Myosotis
saxatilis

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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
Meudt, H.M.; Thorsen, M.J.; Prebble, J.M. (2020)
Myosotis saxatilis Petrie

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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
New Zealand
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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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Etymology
The species epithet is derived from Latin saxum (stone, rock), and means dwelling among rocks.
typification
Holotype: Awatere, Shingly Range, on dry rock at perhaps 4000 feet [1220 m], Cockayne s.n. [annotated ‘Type’ in Petrie’s hand] (lecto: WELT SP002612!*, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 819 (1961)); Upper Awatere, Shingly Range, Cockayne s.n. (possible isolecto: WELT SP002610!).
Meudt, H.M.; Thorsen, M.J.; Prebble, J.M. 2020: Taxonomic revision of the Myosotis australis group (Boraginaceae) native to Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Australian Systematic Botany 33: 477–524.

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3 May 2004
4 December 2020
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