Geranium contortum Eckl. & Zeyh.

Perennial herb, with a long thin (±2 mm diam.) subterranean creeping stock, stems few from the crown, up to ±45 cm long, decumbent or ascending, simple or sparingly branched, nude below, leafy above, glandular puberulous or glandular pubescent, with long and short eglandular spreading hairs as well, sometimes short fine curled or retrorse hairs, which may be arranged unilaterally. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-lanceolate. Leaves crowded on the crown, becoming distant upwards, petioles ±20-130 mm long, decreasing rapidly in length upwards, with short and long spreading eglandular hairs, often gland-tipped hairs as well; blade mostly 20-50 mm in diam., orbicular in outline, deeply 5-7-lobed to within ±3-7 mm of the base, these lobes rhomboid or ovate in outline, deeply and sharply cut, scattered coarse hairs on both surfaces, often short fine gland-tipped hairs as well on lower surface. Peduncles opposite the upper leaves, often few, forming a small cyme in well-grown specimens, mostly 30-65 mm long, usually 2-flowered, glandular-puberulous or glandular-pubescent with long and short spreading eglandular hairs as well, and occasionally short curled retrorse hairs. Pedicels mostly 10-40 mm long, hairy as the peduncles. Sepals 7-10 x 2.75-4 mm, clad in short and long spreading eglandular hairs, often with gland-tipped hairs as well. Petals 14-20 x 10-16 mm, obovate, entire or shallowly notched, blue-pink. Rostrum with spreading glandular and eglandular hairs, or wholly eglandular. Flowers are, and richly coloured, appearing between November and January.