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Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney

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Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney, Phytotaxa 314: 90-93 (2017)
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. 2017: Geranium rubricum (Geraniaceae), a new species from ultramafic soils in the Red Hills, northern South Island, New Zealand. Phytotaxa 314(1): 089–095.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. (2017)
G. rubricum is known from seven sub-populations scattered across the ultramafic Red Hills, northern South Island, all within a 5km radius of the Motueka River Right Branch headwaters.

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Heenan & Courtney
Heenan & Courtney
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. 2017: Geranium rubricum (Geraniaceae), a new species from ultramafic soils in the Red Hills, northern South Island, New Zealand. Phytotaxa 314(1): 089–095.
2017
90-93
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Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
species
Geranium rubricum
The specific epithet rubricum refers to the red ochre colour of the ultramafic rocks and soils where this species occurs (Whitaker 2007), and also to the red colouration of the lamina margins and deep red colour of the stolon cortices.
Type: NEW ZEALAND. Nelson. Red Hills above Motueka River, rocky ridge, ultramafic rocks, 1200 m, December 1990, S. Courtney s.n. (holotype CHR 469918!)

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Geraniales
Geraniaceae
Geranium
rubricum

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Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B. et al. (1999)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Geranium (b) (CHR 469918; Red Hills)
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. (2017)
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Aedo, C. (2023)
Geranium potentilloides L'Hér. ex DC.
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. (2017)
Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney

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Geranium rubricum Heenan & Courtney
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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typification
Type: NEW ZEALAND. Nelson. Red Hills above Motueka River, rocky ridge, ultramafic rocks, 1200 m, December 1990, S. Courtney s.n. (holotype CHR 469918!)
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. 2017: Geranium rubricum (Geraniaceae), a new species from ultramafic soils in the Red Hills, northern South Island, New Zealand. Phytotaxa 314(1): 089–095.
Etymology
The specific epithet rubricum refers to the red ochre colour of the ultramafic rocks and soils where this species occurs (Whitaker 2007), and also to the red colouration of the lamina margins and deep red colour of the stolon cortices.
Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P. 2017: Geranium rubricum (Geraniaceae), a new species from ultramafic soils in the Red Hills, northern South Island, New Zealand. Phytotaxa 314(1): 089–095.

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26 July 2017
14 September 2023
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