Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Myosotis saxosa Hook.f.

M. saxosa Hook. f., Fl. N.Z.  1:   202  (1853)

Rosette lvs numerous, spathulate, hoary with long, crowded, spreading hairs on both surfaces, sometimes retrorse abaxially. Lateral branches ascending; stem lvs > internodes. Cymes ebracteate, mostly simple; internodes short. Calyx hairs long and strong. Corolla white, c. 10 mm diam.; tube cylindric but flaring above scales; filaments reaching to level of corolla lobes.

N.: Raukumara Range and mountains of Hawke's Bay.

Endemic.

Bluffs and shingle.

As circumscribed here M. saxosa includes M. amabilis Cheeseman, accepted in Allan (1961).

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