Myosotis rakiura L.B.Moore

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Name scientific

Myosotis rakiura L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 828 (1961)

Preferred name

Myosotis rakiura L.B.Moore

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

Nomenclature

Authors

L.B.Moore

Original authors

L.B.Moore

Publication place

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

Year published

1961

Publication page

828

Nomenclatural status

replacement name

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Myosotis rakiura L.B.Moore

Based on

Myosotis capitata var. albiflora J.B.Armstr.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Myosotis rakiura

Etymology

The epithet rakiura is the Ngāi Tahu name in te reo Māori for Stewart Island, where this species is native. Rakiura is often translated as ‘glowing sky’ (raki = sky, ura = to be glowing, in the Ngāi Tahu dialect).

Typification

Type: Stewart Island/Rakiura, s. dat., Stack s.n. (CHR, first-step lecto, designated by L.B.Moore in H.H.Allan (ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 828 (1961); second-step lecto, designated here: CHR 635645!*; isolecto: CHR 635646!).

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Boraginales

Family

Boraginaceae

Genus

Myosotis

Species

rakiura

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Stewart Island forget-me-not

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Myosotis rakiura L.B.Moore

Description

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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 rakiura L.B.Moore

Description

Rosette lvs oblong-spathulate; margins ± revolute; hairs short, silky, spreading, very crowded, abaxially retrorse except at tip. Lateral branches ascending; stem lvs many, = or > internodes. Cymes ebracteate, usually branched, many-flowered, compact. Calyx hairs crowded, short. Corolla white, c. 6 mm diam.; tube cylindric; filaments short but > anthers; anthers up to 1 mm long and wholly above scales.