Geranium monticola Ridl.

Species

Angiosperms > Geraniales > Geraniaceae > Geranium

Characteristics

Leaves 5-7-partite, (2-)4-9.5 by (4-)7-18 mm, middle segment usually 3-lobed, rarely entire, free for 0.7-0.85th of its length, 1-1.5 mm wide at the base of its free part, obcuneate, or elliptic when entire, apex rounded, mucronulate, upper surface appressedly strigose, or sparsely erecto-patently hairy, or glabrous, lower surface very densely grey or silvery hairy (occasionally brown when dried), the indument obscuring the nervation.1njlorescences 1-flowered. Peduncle in fruit 0-31 mm long, the pedicel then 5-30 mm. Petals pink, rarely white, 5.5-7 mm long, 1.2-1.6 times as long as t}J.e 4-6 mm long sepals. Sepals in fruit 5-6 mm long.
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Sandy banks of streams in subalpine grassland, open, irregularily overgrown, rocky soil with outcrops of limestone; alt. 3100-4400(-4600 ?) m.
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Distribution

Geranium monticola world distribution map, present in Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:373343-1
WFO ID wfo-0000700890
COL ID 6KDGS
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Synonyms

Geranium monticola