Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.
Boraginaceae Juss.
Myosotis discolor Pers.
, legitimate , scientific
Persoon, C.H. in Murray, J.A. (1797) , Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 15 :
190, in obs.
[tax. nov.]
Curtis, W.M. (1967) , Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3 :
493-494
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Myosotis versicolor ( Pers.) Sm.
legitimate
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
308, Fig. 310
[secondary reference]
Willis, J.H. (1973) , A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2 :
538
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
90
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Myosotis versicolor ( Pers.) Sm.
legitimate
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) , Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3 :
394
[secondary reference]
common name:
Forget-me-not
[n/a]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4 :
403, Fig. 78d
[secondary reference]
common name:
Yellow-and-blue Forget-me-not
[n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 :
535
[secondary reference]
common name:
Forget-me-not
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Myosotis versicolor ( Pers.) Sm.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Myosotis arvensis var. versicolor Pers.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Myosotis discolor Pers. subsp. discolor
legitimate
APC Comment:
Material from SA is treated as M. discolor subsp. discolor, and considered native, not naturalised.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), SA, NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
State Herbarium of South Australia (2007) , Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia :
-
[secondary reference]
Western Australian Herbarium (2007) , FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5 :
-
[secondary reference]
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016) , Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island :
24
[secondary reference]