Myosotis mooreana
Myosotis mooreana is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, described as being endemic to the South Island of New Zealand by Carlos Lehnebach in 2012, and synonymised with Myosotis australis in 2020. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with ebracteate inflorescences and white or yellow corollas with stamens that are fully included in the corolla tube or sometimes partly exserted. Taxonomy and etymology Myosotis mooreana Lehenbach is in the plant family Boraginaceae. It was described by Carlos Lehenbach in 2012, and is a synonym of Myosotis australis, a species of forget-me-not native to New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea. The holotype of M. mooreana was collected in Kahurangi National Park near the Cobb Reservoir in 2011 by C.A. Lehnebach and A. Zeller, and is housed at the herbarium of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (WELT SP092756/A). The species epithet mooreana honours New Zealand botanist Lucy B. Moore, who worked on New Zealand Myosotis and wrote the treatment of the genus for the Flora of New Zealand. According to the latest taxonomic treatment, the following names are all synonyms of Myosotis australis: M. mooreana Lehnebach, M. lytteltonensis (Laing & A.Wall) de Lange