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Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.

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Cav.
Cav.
1787
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Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
species
Geranium sessiliflorum

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sessiliflorum

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Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.

Depressed perennial herb; stock stout, often multicipital; stems very short or obsolete. Lvs mostly in radical rosettes; petioles long, slender; lamina ± orbicular, up to 20 mm. diam., deeply divided into 3-5 lobes, these again segmented. Peduncles 1-fld, short; fls small, sepals oblong, petals us. white > sepals. Carpels ± densely hairy; seeds smooth.

Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.

Perennial herb, often forming a ± prostrate mat, with thick, usually branched taproot and woody caulorrhiza covered with very persistent stipules and petioles. Stems short or 0. Petioles to 10 cm long, slender, densely covered in retrorse hairs. Lamina 1-2-(3) cm diam., broadly reniform to orbicular, lobed to 1/2-3/4 way to midrib; lobes (3)-5-7, green, bronze or purplish green above; hairs variable, sometimes very sparse; secondary lobes shallow, ± mucronulate. Fls solitary; peduncle to 3 cm long including pedicel, often very short, densely covered in retrorse hairs; bracteoles linear-subulate, brown. Sepals 4-7 × 1.5-2.5 mm, elliptic or nearly so, with long, white, spreading hairs; apex cuspidate. Petals 5-7 × 1-3 mm, narrow-elliptic to oblong or obovate, white, often slightly > sepals. Mericarps 2-3 mm long, ± hirsute; beak 8-10 mm long. Seed 1.5-2 mm long, oblong, almost smooth with very shallow alveolae.

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Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Aedo et al. 2005 regard this species as endemic to South America. This G. sessiliflorum var. arenarium is regarded as distinct from G. brevicaule, and as it has no published rank yet within that species, we are using the published name G. sessiliflorum var. arenarium. pers. comm. Peter de Lange 2007
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
Southern America
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Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
Chile
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
New Zealand
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Geranium sessiliflorum Cav.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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2c11f616-52a2-40d3-aec4-d2e2a5d4e223
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 June 2007
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