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Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson

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Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson, New Zealand J. Bot. 11: 163 (1973)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
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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New Zealand
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L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Moore, L.B.; Simpson, M.J.A. 1973: A new Myosotis from North-west Nelson. New Zealand Journal of Botany 11: 163–170.
1973
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Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
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Myosotis brockiei
The epithet honours Walter Boa Brockie (1897–1972; Moore and Simpson 1973), New Zealand botanist and horticulturist (Simpson 1974).
Type: South Island. Gorge of Cobb River 1.5 km below dam (lat. 41⁰06'S, long. 172⁰41'E), 15 Dec. 1965, W.B.Brockie s.n., ex Herbarium of H. Talbot (holo: CHR 233859/A!*; iso: CHR 233860!).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Boraginaceae
Myosotis
brockiei

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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 brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson

Rosette lvs crowded; lamina narrow-elliptic; hairs short, fine, silky, arcuate, crowded but barely overlapping, abaxially mostly retrorse. Lateral branches erect. Cymes 1-several, ebracteate; young fls crowded but internodes > calyx at fruiting. Calyx lobes wide-spreading, lobed almost to base. Corolla white, to 10 mm diam.; tube very short, < calyx lobes; filaments long, conspicuous.

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Myosotis aff. brockiei (CHR 497375; Lake Otuhie)
Myosotis aff. brockiei (CHR 497375; Lake Otuhie)
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. (1987)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Meudt, H.M. (2021)
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
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typification
Type: South Island. Gorge of Cobb River 1.5 km below dam (lat. 41⁰06'S, long. 172⁰41'E), 15 Dec. 1965, W.B.Brockie s.n., ex Herbarium of H. Talbot (holo: CHR 233859/A!*; iso: CHR 233860!).
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 epithet honours Walter Boa Brockie (1897–1972; Moore and Simpson 1973), New Zealand botanist and horticulturist (Simpson 1974).

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1 January 2000
24 May 2021
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