Myosotis venosa Colenso

Rosettes often several, vegetative laterals occ. long and layering by adventitious roots. Rosette-lvs few, up to 7 × 2 cm., lamina broad-oval suddenly narrowed into slender petiole of about same length, tip apiculate; hairs fine and silky, scarcely overlapping, ± spreading, on undersurface slightly coarser and sparser, on margins of sheathing lf-base longer and stronger. Lateral branches ascending or erect, 10-30 cm. long, occ. branched; internodes mostly c. = lvs. Stem-lvs 8-25 × 4-12 mm., becoming more narrow and sessile upwards, apiculate; hairs similar to those of rosette-lvs and fringing margin rather evenly. Cymes ebracteate, 8-fld, us. simple; internodes between frs us. > calyx; pedicels up to 5 mm. long. Calyx 4-6 mm. long, lobes c. 1/2 length, linear-oblong with median rib, subacute; hairs long and short, mostly on margins and ribs, more spreading and slightly hooked towards base. Corolla white, c. 7 mm. diam., tube funnelform with scales at about level of calyx-tips, lobes c. 2.5 × 2 mm., ± oblong; filaments fixed just below scales, > anthers and carrying them well above the scales to the level of the lobes, anthers < 1 mm. long; style > calyx in fr.; stigma clavate, sts minutely 2-lobed. Nutlets c. 1·5 × 1 mm.