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Myosotis lyallii subsp. elderi is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to New Zealand. Lucy Moore described Myosotis elderi in 1961, and Heidi Meudt and Jessie Prebble treated it as a subspecies of M. lyallii in 2018. Plants of this subspecies of forget-me-not are perennial with a prostrate habit, bracteate inflorescences, and white corollas with partially exserted anthers.
Myosotis lyallii subsp. elderi is a forget-me-not endemic to the mountains of eastern areas of the South Island New Zealand from 1100–2200 m ASL in the following ecological districts: Marlborough, Westland, Canterbury, Otago, Southland and Fiordland. It is also found on the North Island in the Southern North Island ecological district. M. lyallii subsp. elderi is an occasional plant in rocky, exposed, are rather bare high-elevation sites such as saddles, ridges and moraines, in sparsely vegetated fellfields and tussock-grasslands, herbfields and cushion turf.
Myosotis abyssinica · Myosotis afropalustris · Myosotis albiflora · Myosotis albosericea · Alpine Forget-me-not · Myosotis amabilis · Myosotis angustata · Myosotis antarctica · Myosotis arnoldii · Field forget-me-not · Asian forget-me-not · Myosotis australis subsp. australis
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