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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Myosotis traversii Hook.f.

M. traversii Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 194.

Rosettes one or several, lvs spathulate, 2-7 cm. × 4-9 mm., petiole broad and ill-defined; hairs ∞ on both surfaces. Lateral branches ascending or erect, up to 15 cm. long, internodes us. < lvs. Upper stem-lvs 12-20 mm. long, hairs crowded on both surfaces. Cyme compound, us. ebracteate, ∞-fld, ± capitate, carried 1-2 cm. above lvs in fr.; internodes and pedicels very short. Calyx up to 5 mm. long in fl., lobes c. ⅓ length, subacute; short appressed hairs covering whole surface closely, long spreading coarse hairs scattered and conspicuously hooked. Corolla lemon-yellow to white, c. 4 mm. diam., tube c. 5 mm. long, cylindric, lobes c. 1·5 × 1·3 mm., rounded; filaments very short, anthers c. 1·2 mm. long, with tips projecting above well-developed scales; style us. much > calyx in fr., stigma capitate. Nutlets oblong, c. 2-2.5 × 1·2 mm., slightly winged above.

Key

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No hooked hairs on undersurface of stem-lvs
Many long hooked hairs on undersurface of upper stem-lvs
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Lf-hairs long and spreading, those on undersurface of rosette-lvs retrorse; infl. us. capitate even in fr.
Lf-hairs short and smoothly appressed, not retrorse on undersurface of rosette lvs; infl. us. elongate in fr.
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