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Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.

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Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.

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

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malacoides

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Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.

Annual with procumbent or ascending hairy stems to c. 20 cm long. Rosette lvs with petioles to c. 8 cm long. Lamina to c. 4.5 × 2.5 cm, ± ovate-oblong, lobulate; lobes extending < 1/2 way to midrib, crenate, hairy and ± glandular beneath, particularly on the veins; base of lf cordate. Stipules broadly ovate, membranous, obtuse. Umbels few-flowered; peduncles and pedicels densely covered in glandular-hairs; bracts membranous, obtuse. Sepals 4-4.5 mm long, ovate-oblong, with dense short glandular and often stiff white hairs, mucronate. Petals pink or mauve-pink, c. 1.5× sepals; claw very short. Stamens c. 3 mm long, wider at base; anthers dark. Staminodes wider than stamens. Fr. beak 2-2.3 cm long, glabrous. Mericarps with appressed white hairs; apical pits glandular, with 1 prominent furrow beneath.

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Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.
Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.

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Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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4c7c7fdd-b376-47da-892a-8eb40a120a68
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1 January 2000
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