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Myosotis capitata Hook.f.

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Myosotis capitata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 56 (1844)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
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.
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.
1844
56
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Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
species
Myosotis capitata
The Latin word capitatus means ‘with a knob-like head’ (Stearn 1998) and refers to the tightly compacted inflorescence, which appears to be capitate.
Type: Auckland Islands. Lord Auckland’s Group, s.dat., J.D.Hooker (K, first-step lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 820 (1961); second-step lecto, designated here:K000787888!*; isolecto:K000787889!).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Myosotis
capitata

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Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Myosotis L.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Meudt, H.M. (2021)
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
New Zealand
Stewart Island
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typification
Type: Auckland Islands. Lord Auckland’s Group, s.dat., J.D.Hooker (K, first-step lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 820 (1961); second-step lecto, designated here:K000787888!*; isolecto:K000787889!).
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.
Etymology
The Latin word capitatus means ‘with a knob-like head’ (Stearn 1998) and refers to the tightly compacted inflorescence, which appears to be capitate.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
24 May 2021
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