Family: Geraniaceae
Erodium botrys
Citation:
Bertol., Amoen.ltal. 35 (1819).
Synonymy: Geranium botrys Cav., Diss. 4:218 (1787); E. pauciflorum Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31:419 (1858).
Common name: Long storks bill, big herons bill.
Description:
Ascending to erect annual herbs to 40 cm high but rarely less than 5 cm; stems covered with stiff more or less curled white eglandular hairs towards the base but often glabrescent there and with numerous glandular hairs towards the top; leaves pinnatisect, oblong to narrow-elliptic in outline, to 10 cm long and c. 3 cm wide, with scattered mostly eglandular hairs especially on the veins; the lobes serrate-dentate; petioles usually as long as the laminae.
Flowers in umbels of 2 or 3 or sometimes solitary; peduncles to 5 cm long; pedicels 10-15 mm long; sepals narrow-oblong, to 15 mm long, densely covered with glandular hairs and with some eglandular ones; petals blue, more or less obovate, slightly longer than the sepals; stamen filaments lanceolate, c. 3 mm long; staminodes about one-third as long.
Mericarps c. 10 mm long, with deep glabrous pits at the base of the awn each with 2 concentric folds which have chartaceous glabrous irregular margins; awn to 10 cm long.
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Image source: fig 388c 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. 431.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. Introduced into all mainland States. Native of the Mediterranean region.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.
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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:
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