Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Myosotis L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Myosotis ×cinerascens Petrie, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 50: 207 (1918)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 818 (1961)
Type: South Island. Limestone shingle-slip, Trelissick Basin, 730 m alt. L.Cockayne, 4 Feb. 1902 (lecto:WELTSP002585!*, left-hand specimen, designated by L.B.Moore in H.H.Allan (ed.), Fl. New Zealand 1: 818 (1961)); syn:South Island. Broken River, Canterbury Alps, ~2400 feet [730 m], Jan. 1893, D.Petrie s.n. (WELT SP002597/A!*, right-hand plant only).
Etymology:
The epithet cinerascens is Latin for greyish or ash grey (Stearn 1998) and refers to the colour of the plants.
 Description

Hairs on upper surface of rosette-lvs smoothly appressed, ± over-lapping, of varying lengths but none long, on undersurface all short, not retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong, narrowing to subacute tip; hairs on upper surface appressed, short, close together, on undersurface similar but shorter, interspersed with longer hooked hairs on uppermost lvs. Infl. elongating in fr., occ. with a lfy bract above the lowest bifurcation.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Myosotis traversii var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 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. [Extinct]
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 var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore] [Extinct]
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 var. cinerascens (Petrie) L.B.Moore] [Extinct]
Petrie, D. 1918: Descriptions of new native flowering-plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 50: 207–211.