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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Myosotis elderi L.B.Moore

M. elderi L. Moore, in Allan, Fl. New Zealand  1:   812, 972  (1961)

Rosette lvs, 2-3 cm long, obovate; hairs long, silky, ± spreading, few or 0 abaxially. Lateral branches decumbent, rooting from some nodes. Stem lvs < internodes, often distichous; bracts smaller, with long hairs fringing margins. Cymes simple, few-flowered, bracteate at least in lower part. Calyx evenly covered with mixed long and short spreading soft hairs. Corolla white, blue, or pinkish, c. 6 mm diam.; tube cylindric; filaments short; anther tips protruding.

N.: Tararua Range; S.: mountains.

Endemic.

Mostly cliffs and rocky places, also grassland.

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