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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Geranium sessiliflorum var. glabrum Knuth

Var. glabrum Knuth in Engl. Bot. Jb. 37, 1906, 565.

Stock well-developed, often multicipital; petioles ± 5 mm. long, slender, sparsely to rather densely clad in appressed to rather spreading retrorse hairs. Lamina 10-20 mm. diam., 5-(7)-lobed to 3/4 way, again subacutely to obtusely toothed. Fls white, on peduncles up to 5 cm. long; calyx clad in long spreading hairs; carpels with appressed hairs to glabrate.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland to lower montane grassland from lat. 37° southwards.

FL.- FT. 12-4. Also Australia, Tasmania. Much the most common var. There are two very distinct forms: (a) lvs dark green; (b) lvs bronze. The two often grow together, and then intermediate colours occur.

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