Myosotis laingii Cheeseman (1912 "1911":67,161)

Waiautoa forget-me-not

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (de Lange et al., 1999:611, 2009:72, 2013:11, 2018:21; de Lange, 2014; Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1912 (de Lange, 2014; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution & Habitat

South Island, New Zealand

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:

SP002414

SP002488

SP002489

SP002492

 

Auckland Museum:

AK7532

 

Media

Above: Myosotis laingii Cheeseman, collected West of Amuri Co., New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP002492)

 

Above: Myosotis laingii Cheeseman, collected Terraces by Clarence River near Lake Tennyson, New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, date unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP002414)

 

Above: Myosotis laingii Cheeseman, collected Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP002488)

 

Above: Myosotis laingii Cheeseman, collected South Island, New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, date unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP002489)

 

Above: syntype of Myosotis laingii Cheeseman, collected South Island, New Zealand. Collected by John Buchanan. CC BY 4.0. Auckland Museum (AK7532). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

References

Original scientific description:

Cheeseman, Thomas Frederick. (1912 "1911"). A new genus and some new species of plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 44: 60-75.

 

Other references:

Cheeseman, Thomas Frederick. (1925). Manual of the New Zealand flora, second revised edition. Wellington, New Zealand: Government Printer. [published posthumously (1845-1923)]

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]

de Lange, P. (2014). Myosotis laingii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T62798327A62798331. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T62798327A62798331.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

de Lange, P. J., Heenan, P. B., Given, D. R., Norton, D. A., Ogle, C. C., Johnson, P. N. and Cameron, E. K. (1999). Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(4): 603-628 [611]. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.1999.9512657

de Lange, P. J., Norton, D. A., Heenan, P. B., Courtney, S. P., Molloy, B. P. J., Ogle, C. C., Rance, B. D., Johnson, P. N. and Hitchmough, R. (2004). Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2004.9512890

de Lange, P. J., Norton, D. A., Courtney, S. P., Heenan, P. B., Barkla, J. W., Cameron, E. K., Hitchmough, R. and Townsend, A. J. (2009). Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47(1): 61-96 [72]. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288250909509794

de Lange, P. J., Rolfe, J. R., Barkla, J. W., Courtney, S. P., Champion, P. D., Perrie, L. R., Beadel, S. M., Ford, K. A., Breitwieser, I., Schonberger, I., Hindmarsh-Walls, R., Heenan, P. B. and Ladley, K. (2018). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 22. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 82 pp.

de Lange, P. J., Rolfe, J. R., Champion, P. D., Courtney, S. P., Heenan, P. B., Barkla, J. W., Cameron, E. K., Norton, D. A. and Hitchmough, R. A. (2013). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 70 pp.

Given, David R. (1976). A register of rare and endangered indigenous plants in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 14(2): 135-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.1976.10428888

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Laing, R. M. (1912 "1911"). Some notes on the botany of the Spenser Mountains, with a list of the species collected. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 44: 60-75.

Le Roux, Johannes J., Hui, C., Castillo, M. L., Iriondo, J. M., Keet, J.-H., Khapugin, A. A., Médail, F., Rejmánek, M., Theron, G. Yannelli, F. A. and Hirsch, H. (2019). Recent Anthropogenic Plant Extinctions Differ in Biodiversity Hotspots and Coldspots. Current Biology 29(17): 2912-2918.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.063

Moore, L. B. (1961). Boraginaceae, pp. 806-833. In: Allan, H. H. (ed.). Flora of New Zealand. Vol. 1. Wellington, New Zealand: Government Printer. liv + 1085 pp., 40 text-figs.

POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 24 April 2024]

WCMC. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.

Webb, C. J., Sykes, W. R. and Garnock-Jones, P. J. (1988). Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Christchurch: Botany Division DSIR.

Wilton, A. D., Schönberger, I., Boardman, K. F., Breitwieser, I., Cochrane, M., Dawson, M. I., de Lange, P. J., de Pauw, B., Fife, A. J., Ford, K. A., Gibb, E. S., Glenny, D. S., Heenan, P. B., Korver, M. A., Novis, P. M., Redmond, D. N., Smissen, R. D. and Tawiri, K. (2016). Checklist of the New Zealand Flora – Seed Plants. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.7931/P1PP42

 

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