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Geranium ocellatum

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Name

Identification
Geranium ocellatum Camb. [family GERANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Geranium ocellatum R.Knuth. [family GERANIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Geranium kweichouense
  • Geranium nepalense
  • Geranium brevipes
  • Geranium bicolor
  • Geranium mascatense
  • Geranium vagans
  • Geranium arabicum
  • Geranium somalense
  • Geranium yemense
  • Geranium ocellatum
  • Geranium purpureum
  • Geranium favosum
  • Geranium choorense
  • Geranium elamellatum
  • Geranium biuncinatum
Common name
  • cranesbill (general for the genus)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for GERANIUM ocellatum Jacq. ex Cambess. [family GERANIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
GERANIUM ocellatum Jacq. ex Cambess. [family GERANIACEAE], (1844).
Information
Annual, prostrate or ascending, pubescent with spreading hairs and glands. Leaves long-petiolate; blade usually 5-lobed, divided to about two-thirds of the radius; lobes 3–10 mm wide at the base, obovate, pinnatifid in upper part, pubescent. Inflorescences (1–)2-flowered; peduncle 0–5 cm long; lower flowers often cleistogamous; pedicels 2–25 mm long, glandular hairy. Sepals narrowly ovate, 4–5.5 mm long, mucronate. Petals 6–9 mm long, mauve or pink with dark purple centre. Mericarps 2–2.5 mm long, shallowly transversely rugose or reticulate, the ridges minutely pubescent; mature beak 8–14 mm long. Seeds c. 2 mm long, minutely reticulate, brown.
Range
N1–3 Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cameroon, East Africa and south to Zimbabwe, S Arabia, Iran and eastwards to China.
Altitude range
1150–1900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos & Bavazzano 8646; Lort Phillips s.n.
Notes
The plants in Africa and Arabia are sometimes recognised as var. sublaeve (Oliv.) Milne-Redhead (see Kew Bull. 3: 453, 1948), while var. ocellatum is distributed from Iran and eastwards.

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