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fornecido por North American Flora
Geranium erianthum DC. Prodr. 1: 641. 1824
Geranium maculatum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 116. 1831. Not G. maculalum L,. 1753.
Perennial, the caudex simple. Stem solitary, usually scape-like, appressed-pubesceut with retrorse hairs ; leaf-blades 7-15 cm. wide, 5-7-parted, the divisions cleft into rather numerous lobes, finely and rather closely pubescent beneath ; petioles of the lower leaves elongate, pubescent like the stem ; pedicels retrorsely pubescent ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 10-13 mm. long, the bodies elliptic, densely hirsute, some of the hairs glandtipped ; petals rose-purple, 17-20 mm. long, slightly veined ; style-column 25-30 mm. long, hirsute, partiallv glandular ; carpel-bodies 3.5-4 mm. long, copiously villous-pilose ; seeds slightly reticulate.
Type locality : Kamtschatka and northwestern America. Distribution : Alaska ; also in northeastern Asia and Japan.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
