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Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.

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Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) L'Hér.
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L'Hér.
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Erodium cicutarium

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cicutarium

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Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.

Annual, at first stemless, later usually with 1 or more hairy stems; plant extremely variable in size, from prostrate to c. 50 cm high and c. 75 cm wide, not musk-scented. Lvs to c. 15 cm long, pinnate, hairy, sometimes densely so, sometimes glandular; petiole longer in rosette and lower cauline lvs. Leaflets sessile, ovate, deeply and finely pinnately dissected with linear to lanceolate lobes, often densely covered in white hairs. Stipules triangular, often broad, membranous, ciliate, silvery; midrib green, forming an acute or mucronate apex. Umbels (2)-5-12-flowered; bracts broad-ovate, membranous, with green keeled midrib forming an acute to short-acuminate apex. Peduncles densely covered in glandular hairs, often > upper cauline lvs; pedicels ± = calyx at anthesis. Sepals (2.5)-3-5 mm long at anthesis, lanceolate, hirsute or glandular, mucronate. Petals 4-6 mm long, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, usually pink or mauve-pink, rarely white; claw short, hairy. Stamens c. 3 mm long; filaments widened at base, without lateral teeth, usually pinkish; anthers dark purple. Staminodes narrow-lanceolate. Fr. beak 3-3.5 cm long, with appressed hairs. Mericarps densely hirsute with hairs of differing lengths; apical pits eglandular, with a prominent shallow glabrous furrow beneath.

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Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.

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Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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111b4e7b-dcfe-41ec-96f1-280ca4173a70
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1 January 2000
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