Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Myosotis L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Myosotis traversii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 194 (1864) subsp. traversii
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Myosotis traversii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 194 (1864) var. traversii
  • = Myosotis cockayneana Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 45: 269 (1913) – as Cockayniana
  • ≡ Myosotis traversii var. cockayneana (Petrie) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 752 (1925)
Type: South Island. Shingle-slip on Shingly Range at 1450 m alt., 27 Dec. 1911, ‘Type’, Cockayne s.n., Herb. L. Cockayne No. 7164 (lecto, designated by L. B. Moore in H. H. Allan (Ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 817 (1961): WELT SP002603!*; isolecto: South Island. Shingle-slip on Shingly Range, Awatere, 1450 m alt., 27 Dec. 1911, Cockayne s.n. ex Herb. L. Cockayne (CHR 328277!); syn: South Island. Shingle Range, Upper Awatere, Marlbro [Marlborough], ~5000 feet [1525 m] 28 Dec 1911, Cockayne s.n., Petrie Herbarium (WELT SP002606!); South Island. Shingly Range, Upper Awatere, s. dat., Cockayne s.n. [Herb. T.F. Cheeseman] AK 7469!
 Description

Lf-hairs long, overlapping but not appressed, those on undersurface of rosette-lvs shorter, sparser, finer and regularly retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong with rounded tips, without hooked hairs. Infl. us. capitate even in fr.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Myosotis traversii Hook.f. var. traversii]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: (Dec.)–Jan.–Mar.; Fruiting: Feb.–Apr.

 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
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 traversii Hook.f. var. traversii] [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [as Myosotis traversii Hook.f. var. traversii] [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Petrie, D. 1913: Descriptions of new species and varieties of native phanerogams. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 45: 265–275.