Geranium solanderi

Detailed description

Perennial herb 0.12–1.0 m tall. Rootstock 2.4–19.1 mm diam., without fusiform roots. Stem erect to ascending, with straight, patent to retrorse, non-appressed, eglandular hairs 0.4–1.8 mm long. Basal leaves in a ± deciduous rosette; lamina 12–45 × 14–57 mm, polygonal in outline, cordate, palmatifid (divided for 0.5–0.8 of its length), pilose, with ± erect, eglandular hairs; segments 5–7, obtriangular, 2.2–6.8 mm at the base; petioles to 180 mm long, with patent, eglandular hairs 0.4–1.7 mm long; stipules 2.2–8 × 0.5–2.1 mm, with eglandular hairs on abaxial surface and on the margin, glabrous adaxially. Inflorescence 2-flowered cymules, solitary; peduncles (4)–40–(61) cm long, with patent to retrorse, not appressed, eglandular hairs 0.3–2.0 mm long; bracteoles 1.5–7.4 × 0.3–0.8 mm, lanceolate, with eglandular hairs on abaxial surface and on the margin, glabrous adaxially; pedicels 8–34 mm long, with patent to retrorse, not appressed, eglandular hairs 0.2–2.0 mm long; pedicel and peduncle together usually overtopping the subtending leaf. Sepals (3.2)–4.2–5.2–(6.3) × 1.6–2.7 mm, lanceolate, with scarious margins 0.1–0.2 mm wide, with eglandular hairs 0.1 mm long on the abaxial side (and eglandular hairs 0.4–1.8 mm long on the margin), glabrous adaxially. Petals (3)–6–(8.1) × 1.4–4.2 mm, entire, without claw, glabrous on both sides, ciliate on the basal margin, purplish. Filaments 2.4–4.5 mm long, yellowish, glabrous on both sides, ciliate on the basal margin, with hairs up to 0.1–0.3 mm long; anthers 0.4–0.8 × 0.2–0.7 mm, yellowish. Nectaries glabrous. Gynoecium 2.5–4.8 mm long, yellowish. Fruit 13.1–20.6 mm long; mericarps 2.2–3.2 ×1.1–1.8 mm, smooth, with erect-patent, eglandular hairs 0.1–1.5 mm long, usually blackish; rostrum 8.8–15.1 mm long, without a narrowed apex, with erect-patent, eglandular hairs 0.1–1.1 mm long; stigmatic remains (0.6)–1–1.4–(1.6) mm long, with 5 hairy lobes. Seeds 1.6–2.2 × 0.9–1.6 mm, reticulate.