Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Myosotis L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Myosotis ultramafica Meudt, Prebble & Rance in Meudt & Prebble, Austral. Syst. Bot. 35: 389 (2022)
Synonymy:
Holotype: NEW ZEALAND: South Island: Otago, West Dome, west side, 28 Jan. 1998, P.N. Johnson 1394 (CHR 514988)
Etymology:
The epithet ultramafica comes from the Latin word ‘ultra’, meaning ‘beyond’ (Stearn 1998), and the composite word ‘mafic’, which was coined for modal ferromagnesian minerals (Cross et al. 1912). The epithet refers to the base rock and substrate on which plants of this species occur.
 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Given, D.R.; Norton, D.A.; Ogle, C.C.; Johnson, P.N.; Cameron, E.K. 1999: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 603–628. [as Myosotis "Mossburn"]
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 "Mossburn"]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [as Myosotis "Mossburn"] [Taxonomically indistinct]
Meudt, H.M.; Prebble, J.M. 2022: Morphological analyses support recognition of three new threatened species of bracteate–prostrate Myosotis (Boraginaceae) endemic to the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany 35(5): 364–394.