Compilation
Geranium brevipes

Annual prostrate-ascending herb up to 7 dm. long/tall, diffusely branched from below; stems longitudinally grooved, mostly covered with spreading hairs or glands up to 2 mm. long, usually very weak but rather woody at the very base. Leaves generally opposite, sometimes alternate towards the base; lamina 5-lobed, divided to about two-thirds of the radius; lobes 3–10 mm. wide at the base, obovate in outline, pinnatifid, pubescent on both surfaces, usually also hispid with scattered hairs on the upper surface; petiole 0.5–9 cm. long, longitudinally grooved, covered with spreading hairs or glands; stipules divided nearly to the base into lanceolate segments, 2–4 mm. long, pubescent or pilose. Inflorescence 2-flowered; peduncle up to 5 cm. long, but frequently very short or lacking, the flowers then solitary, glandular. Flowers mostly chasmogamous but those on lower stem portion usually cleistogamous; pedicels 2–20 mm. long, pubescent and sometimes glandular; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm. long, hyaline at the edge, pubescent. Sepals lanceolate, 4–5.5 mm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, mucronate, 3-nerved, hyaline at the edge, pubescent to pilose or glandular. Petals obovate to broadly spathulate, 6–7.8 mm. long, 3.5–5 mm. wide, obtuse, purple-pink with distinct purple centre. Stamens: filaments narrowly lanceolate or acicular, 2–3 mm. long, purple; anthers 0.6–0.9 mm. long, 0.3–0.5 mm. wide, purple. Ovary pubescent; stigmas 0.3–1 mm. long, dark purple. Mericarps with shallow reticulate ridges, glabrous or shortly pubescent; mature rostrum 8–14 mm. long, pubescent; upper portion of the style 0–2 mm. long. Seeds 2–2.5 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide, glabrous; testa minutely foveolate, pubescent along the minute ridges, with sharp beak, brown to almost black.