Myosurus L.
Scapes us. several, nude, each with 1 minute fl.; sepals us. 5, minutely spurred at base; petals 5 or 0; stamens 5-20; achenes ∞, crowded on a long slender receptacle. Tiny annual herbs with tufted linear-spathulate lvs. A genus of a few rather ill-defined spp., mainly of North Temperate regions. The N.Z. sp. is apparently endemic.
