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Myosotis colensoi (Kirk) J.F.Macbr.

Boraginaceae · New Zealand South

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Summary

Myosotis colensoi is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Thomas Kirk described the species in 1896. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with bracteate inflorescences and white corollas.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Myosotis colensoi", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Myosotis

Myosotis is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family Boraginaceae. In the Northern Hemisphere, they are colloquially known as forget-me-nots or scorpion grasses. The forget-me-not is the official flower of Alaska.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Myosotis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 74 of the 75 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Zealand South · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-43.218, 171.714 · in the densest population, 72 records (96% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 75 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 28 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 74 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 75 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Liadan Dickie, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Myosotis 34 in the reference

Myosotis alpestris Myosotis alpestris Alpine forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Katrin SimonMyosotis antarctica Myosotis antarctica Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonMyosotis arvensis Myosotis arvensis Field forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Ondřej KřivanMyosotis asiatica Myosotis asiatica Asian forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerMyosotis australis Myosotis australis Australian forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Em LamondMyosotis azorica Myosotis azorica Azorean Forget-me-not Photo: CC BY-SA, C T JohanssonMyosotis brevis Myosotis brevis Tiny forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellMyosotis capitata Myosotis capitata Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, Saryu Mae 前 朝琉Myosotis decumbens Myosotis decumbens Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, LjažMyosotis discolor Myosotis discolor Changing forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Sean TMyosotis eximia Myosotis eximia Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Mike DickisonMyosotis explanata Myosotis explanata Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa all 35 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Exarrhena colensoi; Myosotis decora. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Boraginaceae
Described by
(Kirk) J.F.Macbr.
Native to
New Zealand South
Wild records
75 in range · 28 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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