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Family: Geraniaceae
Pelargonium littorale

Citation: Huegel, Bot. Arch. t. 5 (1837).

Synonymy: P. crinitum Nees in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 1:163 (1845); P. stenanthum Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31:419 (1858); P. inodorum sensu J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 483 (1948); P. renifolium Swinbourne, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 94:51 (1970). , Pelargonium australe

Common name: Storks bill, kopata.

Description:
Erect to ascending herb to 40 cm high; stems with long scattered spreading silky hairs and some short glandular ones; leaves ovate-cordate, to 4 cm long, slightly 5-7-lobed, sparsely hairy; petioles to 7 cm long.

Flowers in umbels of 2-7; peduncles to 8 cm long; pedicels to 2 cm long, hairy as the stems; calyx lobes to 4 mm long; sepal spur 1-3.5 mm long; petals usually deep-pink, c. 6 mm long; stamens c. 4 mm long, 4 or 5 fertile.

image of FSA2_Pelargonium_lit.jpg Pelargonium littorale variation of leaves, stipules and section of branch.
Image source: fig 390d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 434.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic. (western section).

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — April.


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