Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geranium tenue Hanks, sp. nov Perennial, the caudex often sparingly branched. Stems solitary or several together, the first internode greatly elongate, retrorsely pubescent with few hairs ; leaf-blades orbicular-pentagonal, 2-3.5 cm. wide, 3-5-parted, the divisions lobed, especially near the apex; pedicels retrorsely pubescent with glandless hairs; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 7-S mm. long, the bodies elliptic or oblong-elliptic; petals purple, considerably longer than the sepals ; style-column 14-17 mm. long, copiously pubescent with ascending hairs ; carpel-bodies hirsute. ■ Type collected in San Luis Totosi, Mexico, 1877,/. G. Scliaffner 45S. Distribution : San Luis Potosi.
- 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
