Family: Geraniaceae
Erodium malacoides
Citation:
Willd., Phyt. 1:10 (1794).
Synonymy: Geranium malacoides L., Sp. Pl. 680 (1753).
Common name: Oval herons bill, oval crowfoot.
Description:
Erect or ascending annual herbs covered with eglandular and glandular hairs; stems to 50 cm long; leaves opposite, ovate to cordate, to 5 cm long and c. 4 cm wide, 5-7-lobed, the lobes dentate; petioles to 8 cm long.
Flowers in umbels of 5-7; peduncles to 5 cm long; pedicels to 18 mm long, eglandular- and glandular-hairy; bracts free; sepals oblong to elliptic, to 5 mm long, densely glandular-hairy; petals deep-pink to mauve, obovate to lanceolate, slightly longer than the sepals; stamen filaments linear-lanceolate, to 4 mm long; staminodes about half as long.
Mericarps hirsute, both the pit and the furrow below it well defined and bearing large glandular hairs; awn to 3 cm long.
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Image source: fig 388h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 432.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: YP. N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. A native of the Mediterranean region.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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