- Family: Boraginaceae Juss.
Myosotis L.
This genus is accepted, and is native to Europe, Asia-Tropical, Africa, Southern America, Northern America, Australasia and Asia-Temperate..
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Boraginaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991
- Habit
- Annual or perennial erect usually hairy herbs
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, mostly oblong or lanceolate, entire, the basal ones shortly petiolate, the cauline ones sessile
- Flowers
- Flowers small in scorpioid cymes
- Calyx
- Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed or divided to just below the middle into 5 mostly narrow lobes, persistent, not or slightly accrescent in fruit
- Corolla
- Corolla blue, white or yellow; tube cylindric or funnel-shaped, the throat usually with scales, papillae or swellings; lobes 5, spreading, contorted in bud
- Stamens
- Stamens 5, included or exserted; filaments filiform; anthers linear, with the connective prolonged into a small trulliform appendage
- Disc
- Disc absent
- Pistil
- Ovary deeply 4-lobed; style gynobasic, filiform; stigma obtuse
- Fruits
- Fruit composed of 4 erect, oblong-ovoid glabrous shining nutlets fixed by a small basal areole to the flat or convex receptacle.
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Distribution
Doubtfully present in:
Aleutian Is.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina South, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Chatham Is., Chile South, China South-Central, Chita, Colorado, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Free State, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hungary, Iceland, Illinois, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Guinea, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Falkland Is., Guatemala, Haiti, Juan Fernández Is., Kerguelen, Masachusettes, New Mexico, Peru, Réunion, Swaziland, Taiwan, Trinidad-Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay
Accepted Species
- Myosotis abyssinica Boiss. & Reut.
- Myosotis afropalustris C.H.Wright
- Myosotis albiflora Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
- Myosotis albosericea Hook.f.
- Myosotis alpestris F.W.Schmidt
- Myosotis amabilis Cheeseman
- Myosotis ambigens (Bég.) Grau
- Myosotis angustata Cheeseman
- Myosotis anomala Riedl
- Myosotis antarctica Hook.f.
- Myosotis arnoldii L.B.Moore
- Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill
- Myosotis asiatica (Vestergr.) Schischk. & Serg.
- Myosotis atlantica Vestergr.
- Myosotis australis R.Br.
- Myosotis austrosibirica O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis azorica H.C.Watson
- Myosotis baicalensis O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis balbisiana Jord.
- Myosotis × bohemica Domin
- Myosotis × bollandica P.Jeps.
- Myosotis bothriospermoides Kitag.
- Myosotis brachypoda Gren.
- Myosotis brevis de Lange & Barkla
- Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
- Myosotis bryonoma Meudt, Prebble & Thorsen
- Myosotis butorinae Stepanov
- Myosotis × cadevallii Sennen
- Myosotis cadmea Boiss.
- Myosotis cameroonensis Cheek & R.Becker
- Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
- Myosotis × catalaunica Sennen
- Myosotis chaffeyorum Lehnebach
- Myosotis chakassica O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis cheesemanii Petrie
- Myosotis colensoi (Kirk) J.F.Macbr.
- Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
- Myosotis congesta Shuttlew. ex Albert & Reyn
- Myosotis corsicana (Fiori) Grau
- Myosotis czekanowskii (Trautv.) Kamelin & V.N.Tikhom.
- Myosotis daralaghezica T.N.Popova
- Myosotis debilis Pomel
- Myosotis decumbens Host
- Myosotis densiflora K.Koch
- Myosotis diminuta Grau
- Myosotis discolor Pers.
- Myosotis dissitiflora Baker
- Myosotis drucei (L.B.Moore) de Lange & Barkla
- Myosotis elderi L.B.Moore
- Myosotis ergakensis Stepanov
- Myosotis exarrhena F.Muell.
- Myosotis eximia Petrie
- Myosotis explanata Cheeseman
- Myosotis forsteri Lehm.
- Myosotis gallica Vestergr.
- Myosotis galpinii C.H.Wright
- Myosotis glabrescens L.B.Moore
- Myosotis glauca (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) de Lange & Barkla
- Myosotis goyenii Petrie
- Myosotis graminifolia DC.
- Myosotis graui Selvi
- Myosotis guneri A.P.Khokhr.
- Myosotis heteropoda Trautv.
- Myosotis imitata Serg.
- Myosotis incrassata Guss.
- Myosotis jordanovii N.Andreev & Peev
- Myosotis × kablikiana Domin
- Myosotis kamelinii O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis kebeshensis Stepanov
- Myosotis keniensis T.C.E.Fr.
- Myosotis koelzii Riedl
- Myosotis kolakovskyi A.P.Khokhr.
- Myosotis × krajinae Domin
- Myosotis krasnoborovii O.D.Nikif. & Lomon.
- Myosotis krylovii Serg.
- Myosotis kurdica Riedl
- Myosotis laeta Cheeseman
- Myosotis laingii Cheeseman
- Myosotis latifolia Poir.
- Myosotis laxa Lehm.
- Myosotis lazica Popov
- Myosotis lithospermifolia (Willd.) Hornem.
- Myosotis litoralis Steven ex M.Bieb.
- Myosotis ludomilae Zaver.
- Myosotis lyallii Hook.f.
- Myosotis lytteltonensis (Laing & A.Wall) de Lange
- Myosotis macrantha (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
- Myosotis macrosiphon Font Quer & Maire
- Myosotis macrosperma Engelm.
- Myosotis magniflora A.P.Khokhr.
- Myosotis margaritae tepánková
- Myosotis martini Sennen
- Myosotis matthewsii L.B.Moore
- Myosotis michaelae tepánková
- Myosotis micrantha Pall. ex Lehm.
- Myosotis minutiflora Boiss. & Reut.
- Myosotis monroi Cheeseman
- Myosotis mooreana Lehnebach
- Myosotis nemorosa Besser
- Myosotis nikiforovae Stepanov
- Myosotis ochotensis O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis olympica Boiss.
- Myosotis oreophila Petrie
- Myosotis pansa (L.B.Moore) Meudt, Prebble, R.J.Stanley & Thorsen
- Myosotis × parviflora (Schur) Domin
- Myosotis paucipilosa (Grau) Ristow & Hand
- Myosotis × permixta Domin
- Myosotis petiolata Hook.f.
- Myosotis platyphylla Boiss.
- Myosotis popovii Dobrocz.
- Myosotis pottsiana (L.B.Moore) Meudt, Prebble, R.J.Stanley & Thorsen
- Myosotis propinqua (Turcz.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Myosotis pulvinaris Hook.f.
- Myosotis pusilla Loisel.
- Myosotis radix-palaris A.P.Khokhr.
- Myosotis rakiura L.B.Moore
- Myosotis ramosissima Rochel
- Myosotis refracta Boiss.
- Myosotis rehsteineri Wartm.
- Myosotis retrorsa Meudt, Prebble & Hindm.-Walls
- Myosotis rivularis (Vestergr.) A.P.Khokhr.
- Myosotis robusta D.Don
- Myosotis ruscinonensis Rouy
- Myosotis sajanensis O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis saxosa Hook.f.
- Myosotis schistosa A.P.Khokhr.
- Myosotis schmakovii O.D.Nikif.
- Myosotis scorpioides L.
- Myosotis secunda Al.Murray
- Myosotis semiamplexicaulis DC.
- Myosotis sicula Guss.
- Myosotis solange Greuter & Zaffran
- Myosotis soleirolii Godr.
- Myosotis sparsiflora J.C.Mikan ex Pohl
- Myosotis spatulata G.Forst.
- Myosotis speciosa Pomel
- Myosotis speluncicola (Boiss.) Rouy
- Myosotis stenophylla Knaf
- Myosotis stolonifera (J.Gay ex DC.) J.Gay ex Leresche & Levier
- Myosotis stricta Link ex Roem. & Schult.
- Myosotis suavis Petrie
- Myosotis subcordata Riedl
- Myosotis sylvatica Ehrh. ex Hoffm.
- Myosotis taverae Valdés
- Myosotis tenericaulis Petrie
- Myosotis tineoi C.Brullo & Brullo
- Myosotis traillii Kirk
- Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
- Myosotis tuxeniana (O.Bolòs & Vigo) O.Bolòs & Vigo
- Myosotis ucrainica Czern.
- Myosotis umbrosa Meudt, Prebble & Thorsen
- Myosotis uniflora Hook.f.
- Myosotis urceolaris Shuttlew.
- Myosotis venosa Colenso
- Myosotis verna Nutt.
- Myosotis vestergrenii Stroh
- Myosotis welwitschii Boiss. & Reut.
- Myosotis wumengensis L.Wei
Synonyms
Other Data
Myosotis L. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (2 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Rico, L. [1796], Armenia | K000297296 | |||
Rico, L. [1716], Armenia | K000297244 |
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 131 (1753)
Accepted by
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1972). Flora Europaea 3: 1-370. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Stroh in Beih. Bot. Cbl. 61B: 317 (1941).
- —F.T.A. 4, 2: 57
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 63 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 131 (1753)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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