Flora of New Zealand Series

Myosotis Hortensia Decne in Deless. Ic. sel. Pl. 5, 1846, 42, t. 99.

Cynoglossum nobile Hook. f. in Gdnrs' Chron. 1858, 240.

Myosotidium nobile Hook. in Bot. Mag. 1859, t. 5137.

Type: ? Originally described from garden plants.

Perennial from stout cylindric stock. Basal lvs crowded, 15-30 cm. or more long, broad ovate-cordate to reniform, thick, fleshy, deeply grooved, on long stout petioles; upper surface glab. and shining, under-surface with evenly scattered minute retrorse hairs. Fl.-branches exceeding lvs, their lvs about oblong, sessile. Cymes dense, 10-15 cm. diam.; pedicels c. 10 mm. long. Calyx-lobes broad with appressed hairs; corolla c. 12-15 mm. diam., dark to pale blue, lobes rounded. Nutlets flattened, with unevenly toothed wing, c. 15 mm. diam.

DIST.: Ch. Coastal rocky places and sandy beaches.

FL. 9-10. FT. 10-12.