Myosotis laingii Cheeseman (year?)
Waiautoa forget-me-not
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (de Lange, 2014; Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last record: 1912 (de Lange, 2014)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:
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 West of Amuri Co., New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP002492)
Above: Myosotis laingii Cheeseman, collected Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Acquisition history unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP002488)
References
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]
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.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; 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.
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
W.C.M.C. (1996). Threatened plant database of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. W.C.M.C., Cambridge, U.K.
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.; Tawiri, K. (2016). Checklist of the New Zealand Flora – Seed Plants. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.7931/P1PP42