Myosotis drucei (L.B.Moore) de Lange & Barkla

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Name scientific

Myosotis drucei (L.B.Moore) de Lange & Barkla in de Lange et al., Threat. Pl. New Zealand 438 (2010)

Preferred name

Myosotis drucei (L.B.Moore) de Lange & Barkla

Taxonomy reference

de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Norton, D.A.; Rolfe, J.R.; Sawyer, J. 2010: Threatened plants of New Zealand. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

de Lange & Barkla

Original authors

L.B.Moore

Authors

(L.B.Moore) de Lange & Barkla

Publication place

de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Norton, D.A.; Rolfe, J.R.; Sawyer, J. 2010: Threatened plants of New Zealand. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

Year published

2010

Publication page

438

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Myosotis pygmaea var. drucei L.B.Moore

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Myosotis drucei

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Boraginales

Family

Boraginaceae

Genus

Myosotis

Species

drucei

Synonyms

Myosotis pygmaea var. drucei L.B.Moore

Descriptions

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

Myosotis pygmaea var. drucei L.B.Moore

Description

Hairs tapering to soft ± flexuous tips; spreading. Rosette-lvs obovate or broad-spathulate, 15 × 5 mm. in type but often larger. Lateral branches 3-10-(15) cm. long, sts ∞ and branched. Bracts ovate to broad-oblong, distichous, exceeding internodes. Calyx 3-(5) mm. long, hairs ∞, long and ± retrorse short, not stiff. Corolla ± cream-coloured, c. 3 mm. diam., tube 2-3 mm. long. Nutlets up to 1·7 mm. long, hidden within calyx.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.