Pelargonium xasperum
Citation:
Ehrh. ex Willd., Sp. Pl. 3:678 (1800).
Synonymy: P. graveolens sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 484 (1948).
Common name: Rose (or rose-oil) geranium.
Description:
Spreading hairy soft-wooded shrub to 1 m high, with an aromatic smell; stems covered with harsh eglandular hairs and some glandular ones; leaves ovate in outline, to 7 cm long, pinnatisect with 5-7 lobes, hirsute; petioles to 10 cm long.
Flowers subsessile or on pedicels to 6 mm long, up to l0 in each umbel; peduncle to 6 cm long; calyx lobes to 9 mm long; sepal spur to 4 mm long; petals pink, marked with darker lines, to 2 cm long; stamens to 7 mm long; c. 6 fertile.
| Pelargonium xasperum leaf.
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Image source: fig 390 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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also present as a garden escape in N.S.W. and Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.
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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:
Cultivated for its aromatic oil.
Author:
Not yet available
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