3924.000 Geranium L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, palmately lobed or dissected. Flowers actinomorphic, solitary or in pairs, axillary. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 10 (in ours), usually all fertile. Ovary 5-locular. Beak of mericarp rolling upwards at maturity, remaining attached at its apex.

Worldwide: 300 species in temperate regions and in the montane tropics.

Mozambique: 4 taxa.

Geranium incanum subsp. nyassense

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
aculeolatum Oliv.N
exellii J.R. Laundon[NrEnd]MS
incanum Burm. f. subsp. nyassense (R. Knuth) J.R. LaundonMSDescription, Image
ocellatum Jacquem. ex Cambess.T

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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Geranium
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Wikipedia: Geranium
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Geranium
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Geranium

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Geranium.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=786, retrieved 23 March 2023

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