Geraniaceae
G. pilosum Sol. in Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 91, nomen nudum.
Perennial herb, us. summer-green, clad in appressed to spreading or retrorse hairs; stock stout, hard, woody, up to 2 cm. diam., deeply descending, often multicipital. Stems slender, branching from base upwards, (8)-30-(60) cm. long. Lvs on very slender petioles 4-15 cm. long, stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, (2)-3-(5) mm. long, sts more. Lamina ± reniform (10)-30-45 mm. diam., thin, (3)-5-(7)-lobed almost to base; lobes narrow-oblong, up to ± 3 mm. wide; primary lobes again cut into 3-5 segs. Peduncles very slender c. 2-4 cm. long, pedicels c. 1 cm. long. Fls 1-2; sepals broad-ovate, acute, ± awned, 4-6 mm. long; petals obcordate, emarginate, 6-9 mm. long; carpels ± 15 mm. long, including beak; seeds ± 2 mm. long, oblong in outline, finely striate-reticulate.
DIST.: N., S. Coastal to lowland open grassland, river terraces and dry places throughout, but local.
FL.- FT. 11-2. Also in Australia and Tasmania.
The degree and arrangement of the indumentum varies somewhat. Knuth (loc. cit. 75) describes his var. grandiflorum : "Petala calycem fere duplo superantia, usque 11 mm. longa." He cites G. patulum Forst. f. [nomen nudum], G. retrorsum L'Her. ex DC. Prodr. 1, 1824, 644, and G. dissectum var. patulum Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 63, as synonyms. He cites only Australian specimens. Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 533) accepts the var., but cites no localities.
