Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geranium trolliifolium Small, sp. nov Perennial, the caudex simple. Stems erect, about 2 dm. long, hirsute, sparingly branched above ; leaf-blades thick, reniform-pentagonal in outline, 3-6 cm. wide, minutely pubescent above, rather copiously hirsute beneath, mostly 5-parted, the divisions lobed or incised, the teeth acute ; pedicels densely pubescent with short hairs and longer glandular hairs; sepals markedly awn-tipped, the outer ones 10-12 mm. long, the bodies elliptic, abruptly narrowed into the tip; petals purple, 17-20 mm. long, rounded at the apex; stylecolumn glandular-pubescent ; fruit not seen.
Trpe collected in the Sierra Madre, near Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico, June 16, 1899, C. H. T. Tou'useiid & C. .1/. Barber 34.
Distribution : Chihuahua and Durango.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
