Myosotis goyenii Petrie
Perennial herb with stout branched stock with one or several rosettes. Lvs spathulate, 3-7-(14) cm. × 3-14 mm., tip subacute, petiole longer than lamina; hairs alike on both surfaces, short, stiff, straight, closely appressed, barely overlapping, rather sparser on undersurface, clinging to margin. Lateral branches few, ascending or erect, sts again branched, 8-20-(30) cm. long, internodes c. = lvs. Uppermost stem-lvs 10-20 × 2-5 mm., narrow-oblong, sessile, tip acuminate-acute; hairs as on rosette-lvs but more crowded. Cymes ebracteate, on long lfless peduncles, simple or once (occ. twice) forked; internodes between lower fls becoming > calyx; pedicels occ. up to 5 mm. long. Calyx c. 4mm. long, lobes > 1/2 length, very narrow, acute; hairs us. all short, straight, stiff and appressed as on rest of plant, very crowded at base, evenly covering lobes. Corolla "pale-yellow to nearly white", c. 7-10 mm. diam., tube 7-8 mm. long, narrow-funnelform, inconspicuous scales below mouth, lobes c. 3 × 3 mm.; filaments very short, fixed below (occ. much below) scales, anthers 1·5 mm. long, tips at or below level of scales; style much > calyx; stigma capitate. Nutlets 2·2 × 1.1 mm., the few seen long pointed and sharply keeled.
DIST.: S. Mt. Percival, Hurunui Gorge, Avoca River, Kurow Mts, Cardrona Valley, Lake Hawea, Arrowtown, Ben Lomond. Dry bare banks, rocky steep slopes.
FL. (10)-11-1. FT. 12-2.
Petric has labelled as type the specimen W 2482, "Arrowtown, Lake Co. Otago, 1:2:1896, on loose shingle, D.P." although the collecting date is later than publication of the sp. (paper read in May 1890). Herb. Petrie contains many undated flowering specimens from Arrowtown (also A 7474 and 7475) and also some from two other localities mentioned with his species description-Lake Hawea (W 2484, Feb. 1886, without fls or frs) and Cardrona Valley (W 2485, with fls and frs, mounted with specimens from Kurow Mts).
Plants collected by W. B. Brockie at Hurunui George and Avoca River have wholly white fls.
