Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore

Details

Name scientific

Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 818 (1961)

Preferred name

Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie

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.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

L.B.Moore

Original authors

Petrie

Authors

(Petrie) 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

818

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Basionym

Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Boraginales

Family

Boraginaceae

Genus

Myosotis

Species

traversii

Descriptions

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

Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore

Description

Hairs on upper surface of rosette-lvs smoothly appressed, ± over-lapping, of varying lengths but none long, on undersurface all short, not retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong, narrowing to subacute tip; hairs on upper surface appressed, short, close together, on undersurface similar but shorter, interspersed with longer hooked hairs on uppermost lvs. Infl. elongating in fr., occ. with a lfy bract above the lowest bifurcation.

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