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Myosotis macrantha

Myosotis macrantha
Photo: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, CC BY 4.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
New Zealand South I.
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Myosotis macrantha or the Bronze Forget-Me-Not is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described the species as Exarrhena macrantha in 1864, and Thomas Cheeseman transferred it to the genus Myosotis in 1885. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with ebracteate inflorescences and yellow to dark purple corollas with stamens that are exserted.

Where it grows

Myosotis macrantha is a forget-me-not that occurs in high-elevation habitats in the South Island of New Zealand, particularly along the western side, in Western Nelson, Canterbury, Westland, Otago and Fiordland.

Other Myosotis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myosotis macrantha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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