Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Myosotis L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Myosotis petiolata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 202 (1853)
 Description

Rosettes often elongated; lamina broad; hairs short, straight, stiff, appressed, usually widely spaced on both surfaces. Lateral branches often many, ascending; internodes = or > lvs. Cymes ebracteate, usually simple, many-flowered; internodes > calyx at fruiting; pedicels 5–8 mm long. Calyx lobed almost to base; lobes very narrow. Corolla white, c. 6–15 mm diam.; filaments long; anthers < 1 mm long.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Oct.–Mar.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Myosotis petiolata Hook.f. var. petiolata] [Nationally Critical]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Myosotis petiolata Hook.f. var. petiolata]
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Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M.; Stanley, R.J.; Thorsen, M.J. 2013: Morphological and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data show that New Zealand endemic Myosotis petiolata (Boraginaceae) comprises three rare and threatened species. Australian Systematic Botany 26: 210–232.