Geranium sp.

Geranium at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

Geranium sp.	30 Oct 2017	BettyDonWood
Unidentified	20 Oct 2015	BettyDonWood
Geranium potentilloides var. potentilloides	15 Oct 2015	KenT

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6 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

20 Oct 2015

I am inclined to think this may be a new species. The flower stalks are far longer than in PlantNet or even in the new Flora of Victoria on line ( to 7 cm long). The stalks in your photos appear to be about 10 cm long. The mucro (point) on the sepals also appears to be longer than 1 mm long. Could you go back and get a specimen? Michael Mulvaney should know who to apply to for a permit.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

20 Oct 2015

Ken I can arrange a permit to pick native plants for scientific study for you

KenT wrote:

21 Oct 2015

Thanks Betty, I was wondering about this one. My suggested name was what I was left with after I had eliminated everything else. I assume with Geranium one needs to collect an entire plant including the roots, but do you know if Geraniums are likely to have seeds and fruit on the plant at the same time or is the plant likely to finish flowering before seeds are set? I will have to see about a permit.

BettyDonWood wrote:

21 Oct 2015

All the keys I have looked at require both flowers and mature seeds. This rarely happens at the same time. They also require examination of the roots. I have just found my copy of the paper key n flora of Victoria. It could be Geranium sp. Pale pink flowers (M.Gray 5847) Vic. Herbarium . If so it will be a first for the ACT and will need checking out anyway.

JackieMiles wrote:

30 Oct 2017

This one doesn't look like anything I am familiar with. A specimen (or two, collected at different times to get flowers and seeds) sounds like the way to go.

JackieMiles wrote:

30 Oct 2017

PS It also doesn't look like the other record suggested as Geranium Pale Pink Flowers, as it had short dense stem hairs while this one has long sparse hairs on the stems, a little bit reflexed, like gardneri, but I think gardneri is usually 2 flowered.

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