Family: Geraniaceae
Erodium brachycarpum
Citation:
Thell., Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Br. Isl. 1917, 5:17 (1918).
Synonymy: E. botrys (Cav.)Bertol. var. brachycarpum Godron, Fl. Juvenalis edn 1:16 (1853); E. botrys (Cav.)Bertol. var. obtusiplicatum Maire, Weiller & Wilczek, Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Afr. N. 26:120 (1935); E. obtusiplicatum (Maire, Weiller & Wilczek)J. Howell, Leafl. West. Bot. 5:67 (1947).
Common name: Herons bill.
Description:
Erect to ascending herb to 30 cm high; stems covered with stiff white eglandular hairs but glandular ones becoming predominant towards the top; leaves pinnatisect or lobed, oblong to obovate in outline, to 5 cm long, with scattered white hairs; the lobes serrate-dentate; petioles to 8 cm long.
Flowers in umbels of 2-4 or rarely solitary; peduncles to 4 cm long; pedicels to 10 mm long; sepals narrow-oblong to elliptic, to 10 mm long, densely glandular-hairy with some eglandular ones; petals blue, obovate, slightly longer than the sepals; stamen filaments elliptic, c. 4 mm long; staminodes about half as long.
Mericarps c. 8 mm long, with 2 shallow pits at the base of the awn and a shallow groove beneath the pit; both pits and grooves with obtuse margins and often hirsute; awn to 8 cm long.
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Image source: fig 388d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL. Introduced into all mainland States. A native of North Africa.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: March, Sept. (few records).
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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