Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
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Myosotis laeta Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 17: 236 (1885)
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Nomenclature
Cheeseman
Cheeseman
1885
236
Myosotis (Exarrhena) læta
ICN
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
species
Myosotis laeta
The epithet is derived from the Latin laetus and means cheerful, pleasant or bright (Stearn 1998).
Type: South Island. Red Hills, Wairau, Nelson alt. 4000 feet (1220 m), Jan. 1882, T.F.Cheeseman s.n. (lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.). Fl. New Zealand 1: 823 (1961): AK 7531!*; isolecto: WELT SP002415!*, AK 210594!* (7 of 12 plants on sheet only, remaining plants represent Myosotis monroi).
Classification
Descriptions
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Rosette-lvs few, 2-5 cm. × 5-9 mm., lamina narrow-spathulate very gradually tapering into winged petiole of about same length, tip apiculate; hairs fine and silky, scarcely overlapping, appressed to spreading, on undersurface regularly retrorse, longer and stronger on margins of sheathing If-base. Lateral branches erect, up to 18 cm. long, internodes mostly > lvs. Stem-lvs few, clearly distinct from rosette-lvs, c. 8 × 3 mm., narrow-oblong, sessile, acute; hairs fine and silky on upper surface, coarser and sparser on undersurface, long and fringing on margin. Cymes simple, ebracteate, c. 12-fld, c. 5 cm. long; internodes> calyx in fr.; pedicels up to 4 mm. long. Calyx 3-4 mm. long, lobes > 1/2 length, narrow, subacute; hairs on lobes long, flexuous, towards base short and appressed with longer hooked ones. Corolla "white with a yellow eye or altogether yellow", c. 8 mm. diam., tube funnelform and c. 5 mm. long with scales well above level of calyx-tips, lobes c. 3 × 2.5 mm., ± oblong; filaments fixed about level of scales, > anthers and carrying them well above scales to level of lobes, anthers > 1 mm. long; style 2 × calyx in fr., stigma capitate. Nutlets "ovoid, pale-brown".
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Rosette loose; lvs narrow-spathulate; hairs fine, silky, scarcely overlapping, regularly retrorse abaxially. Lateral branches erect; lvs < internodes, few, with hairs fringing margins. Cymes ebracteate; internodes > calyx at fruiting. Calyx hairs long, flexuous on lobes, hooked near base of calyx. Corolla white to yellowish, c. 8 mm diam.; tube funnelform; filaments > anthers, carrying them above scales.
Taxonomic concepts
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
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typification
Type: South Island. Red Hills, Wairau, Nelson alt. 4000 feet (1220 m), Jan. 1882, T.F.Cheeseman s.n. (lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.). Fl. New Zealand 1: 823 (1961): AK 7531!*; isolecto: WELT SP002415!*, AK 210594!* (7 of 12 plants on sheet only, remaining plants represent Myosotis monroi).
Etymology
The epithet is derived from the Latin laetus and means cheerful, pleasant or bright (Stearn 1998).
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1 January 2000
24 May 2021