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Family: Geraniaceae
Erodium cygnorum

Citation: Nees in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 1:162 (1845).

Synonymy: Erodium angustilobum, Erodium cygnorum

Common name: None

Description:
Decumbent to ascending herbaceous perennials or annuals to 50 cm high; stems covered with stiff eglandular or viscid glandular hairs; leaves with 3 principal lobes, pubescent as the stems.

Flowers in umbels of 2-6, rarely solitary; pedicel to 15 mm long, glandular-hairy or glabrous; sepals oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, to 13 mm long, covered with appressed eglandular or spreading glandular hairs; petals blue, obovate, to 12 mm long; stamen filaments to 4 mm long; staminodes half or two-thirds as long.

Mericarps c. 10 mm long; the awn to 12 cm long, with 2 pits at the base and 1 or 2 concentric folds beneath the pits.

Distribution:  Endemic to Australia, with 2 subspecies.

S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, EP.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
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State Herbarium of South Australia

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