Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Myosotis
Boraginaceae Juss.
Myosotis L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 131 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 63 [secondary reference]
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 495 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 100 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Exarrhena R.Br. legitimate
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 240 [secondary reference]
common name: Scorpion Grass [n/a] common name: Forget-Me-Not [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 347 [secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 85 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Myosotis scorpioides L.
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 476 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Greco-Latin myosotis, the European Forget-me-not, the classic name being due to the resemblance of the leaves to the ears of a mouse or rat."
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 717 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Greco-Latin myosotis, the European Forget-me-not, the classic name being due to the resemblance of the leaves to the ears of a mouse or rat."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 398 [secondary reference]
common name: Forget-me-not [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 491 [secondary reference]
common name: Forget-me-not [n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 308 [secondary reference]
Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 214 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 920 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 90 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 549 [secondary reference]
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 393 [secondary reference]
common name: Forget-me-nots [n/a]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 401-402 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 535 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 565 [secondary reference]