Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Geranium sessiliflorum var. maculatum G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson

Var. maculatum Simpson et Thomson in T.R.S.N.Z. 73, 1943, 157.

Type: BD 75697 "Shores of Lake Lyndon . . . subject to flooding. G. Simpson and J. S. Thomson."

Stock abbreviated, us. rather slender; petioles 5-8 cm. long, very slender, hairs retrorse, appressed. Lamina 10-20 cm. diam., subglaucous, (3)-5-lobed to 3/4 way and again bluntly toothed, hairs appressed; mottled mainly at sinuses and base. Peduncles short, densely hairy; calyx clad in long appressed hairs; petals pink; carpels silky.

DIST.: Uncertain.

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