Citation: Carolin, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 83:92 (1958).

Synonymy: Erodium moschatum

Common name: None

Description:
Erect to ascending glandular- and eglandular-hairy annual herb; stems to 20 cm long; leaves oblong to ovate, to 3.5 cm long, lobed with 3-5 principal lobes but never to the midrib; the lobes dentate; petioles to 2 cm long.

Flowers in umbels of 2-5; pedicels to 15 mm long, covered with mostly glandular hairs; sepals oblong-lanceolate, to 8 mm long; petals pink to pale-purple, with darker veins, as long as or slightly longer than the sepals; stamen filaments narrow-lanceolate, c. 4 mm long; staminodes almost as long.

Mericarps c. 5 mm long, hirsute, both the pit and the groove below it well defined and bearing large glandular hairs.

	Erodium aureum leaf shape.
Image source: fig 388b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.   introduced into Australia, possibly from south-west Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: May — Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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