{"id":1339916,"date":"2016-10-31T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:15:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:53:35","slug":"myosotis-scorpioides","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/myosotis-scorpioides\/","title":{"rendered":"Myosotis scorpioides"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Myosotis<\/i> scorpioides<\/i> L., Sp. Pl. 131 1753<\/i>. (syn: Echioides palustris<\/i> (Hill) Moench; Echioides perennis<\/i> (Moench) Moench; Myosotis adpressa<\/i> Stokes; Myosotis aspera<\/i> LaMotte; Myosotis coronaria<\/i> Dum.; Myosotis dumortieri<\/i> Thielens; Myosotis geniculata<\/i> Schur; Myosotis montana<\/i> Pourr. ex Steud.; Myosotis multiflora<\/i> M\u00e9rat; Myosotis nemorosa<\/i> Bess.; Myosotis palustris<\/i> Hill; Myosotis perennis<\/i> Moench; Myosotis scorpioides<\/i> subsp. multiflora<\/i> (Merat) P. Foum.; Myosotis scorpioides<\/i> subsp. palustris<\/i> (L.) F. Hermann; Scorpioides glaber<\/i> Gilib.);\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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Images by Gurcharan Singh<\/a>\u00a0(Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more photos & complete details, click on the links)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Boraginaceae Week: Myosotis caespitosa from Pahalgam, Kashmir:<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 Myosotis caespitosa<\/i> C. F. Schultz, Prodr. Fl. Starg. Suppl. 1: 11. 1819.<\/span><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Perennial herb distinguished by appressed pubescence specially on calyx, more or less ascending week branches, calyx divided nearly up to middle or so, fruiting pedicels more or less horizontal and up to 10 mm long and style shorter than fruiting calyx.<\/font><\/div>\n
Photographed from Pahalgam, Kashmir<\/font><\/p>\n
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This must be most blue flowered family <\/p>\n

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For a change the inflorescence doesn’t appear to be a classical helicoid cyme! Or is it some modification which I haven’t understood?
Anyway beautiful plant.
Noticed same as …. The family has most blue flowered members.
Sub Himalayan area appears to be rich in its species.<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0am in agreement that the hairs on the calyces of this appear to be appressed & straight only. Which suggests either M.caespitosa<\/i> or M.palustris<\/i>– I cannot see sufficient detail nor is it possible to tell whether the style is shorter or as long as the fruiting calyx.\u00a0 Not sure of other differences based upon key in ‘Flora of Pakistan’.\u00a0 Would anyone like to say if they can distinguish between the two?\u00a0 Can the two be separated in the Indian Himalaya?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the UK we have both species, one now M.laxa<\/i> subsp.\u00a0caespitosa<\/i> and M.scropioides<\/i> (syn. M.palustris<\/i>). In our ‘New Flora of the British Isles’ (Stace) the two are separated as well by the calyx divided less than 1\/2 way to base at flowering, with broad teeth forming equilateral triangle in M.palustris<\/i><\/font> (using the name used in Flora of Pakistan)<\/font> whereas M.caespitosa<\/i> (using the name used in this post) often divided more than or\u00a01\/2 way\u00a0to the base at flowering, with narrow teeth forming an isosceles triangle<\/font> (see, secondary geometry has its uses after all).\u00a0 <\/div>\n
The images taken at Pahlgam indicate calyces divided less than half way to base and thus fit with M.scorpioides<\/b><\/i> (syn. M.palustris<\/i>) and not M.laxa<\/i> susbp. caespitosa<\/i>?\u00a0 But do differences\/ a key distinguishing species in the UK apply in India?<\/div>\n
What does anyone else think?<\/div>\n
See: http:\/\/www.naturespot.org.uk\/species\/water-forget-me-not<\/font><\/a>\u00a0for M.scorpioides<\/i> (M.palustris<\/i> according to Pakistan flora)<\/div>\n
See: http:\/\/www.naturespot.org.uk\/species\/tufted-forget-me-not<\/font><\/a>\u00a0for M.laxa<\/i> subsp. caespitosa<\/i><\/p>\n
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<\/font>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>IPNI<\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0RHS Gardening<\/a>\u00a0 Missouri Botanical Garden<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/span>PFAF<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myosotis scorpioides L., Sp. Pl. 131 1753. (syn: Echioides palustris (Hill) Moench; Echioides perennis (Moench) Moench; Myosotis adpressa Stokes; Myosotis aspera LaMotte; Myosotis coronaria Dum.; Myosotis dumortieri Thielens; Myosotis geniculata Schur; Myosotis montana Pourr. ex Steud.; Myosotis multiflora M\u00e9rat; Myosotis nemorosa Bess.; Myosotis palustris Hill; Myosotis perennis Moench; Myosotis scorpioides…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[7502],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1339916","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-myosotis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1339916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1339916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1339916"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1339916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}