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  1. Family: Boraginaceae Juss.

    1. Myosotis L.

        2. This genus is accepted, and is native to Europe, Asia-Tropical, Africa, Southern America, Northern America, Australasia and Asia-Temperate..

    [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

    Myosotis L. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Rico, L. [1796], Armenia K000297296
    Rico, L. [1716], Armenia K000297244

    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
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
    'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

    Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China
    The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0