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Fam.: Boraginaceae / Borrage Fam.  

Synon.:  Myosotis ambigens  (BEG.) GRAU

Genus:  Myosotis  L.
 

Authors:
   SELVI:  Federico Selvi (1966 - ), Italian botanist
   BEG.:  Augusto Béguinot (1875 - 1940), Spanish botanist who worked in Italy
   GRAU:  Hans Rudolph Jürke Grau (1937 - ), German botanist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Myosotis:   myos = mouse, otis = ear
   graui:   Hans Rudolph Jürke Grau (1937 - ), German botanist (GRAU)
   ambigens:   doubtful
 

Myosotis graui is an endemism of the Apennine Mountains. From Alpine Forget Me Not Myosotis alpestris it differs by its small size up to 12 centimeters, the light color of the blossoms, and mainly the pilosity of the calyx.

 

Myosotis graui / Grau's Forget-me-not, I Norcia 7.6.2007
Fig. 1:  Myosotis graui / Grau's Forget-me-not
I Norcia 7.6.2007
Myosotis graui / Grau's Forget-me-not, I Norcia 7.6.2007
Fig. 2:  Myosotis graui / Grau's Forget-me-not
I Norcia 7.6.2007
Myosotis graui / Grau's Forget-me-not, I Norcia 7.6.2007
Fig. 3:  Myosotis graui / Grau's Forget-me-not
I Norcia 7.6.2007

 


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