Geranium potentilloides

Soft Crane's-bill at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

	Geranium potentilloides	30 Oct 2017	BettyDonWood
	Unidentified	1 Nov 2015	KenT

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Different location but probably the same as http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sighting/1947449

4 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

4 Nov 2015

I still think it might be a new species. I regret my suggestion that it might be G. sp. Pale Pink Flowers, which keyed in Flora of Vic reasonably OK. However, even as I pushed Post Comment I noticed that the mucros on the sepals appeared to be far longer than 0.5 mm long, also that the total length of peduncle plus pedicel ws a maximum of 5.3 cm long, much shorter than in these plants.

KenT wrote:

5 Nov 2015

Thanks Betty, at least we have another location. I will just have to wait and see if a permit comes before anything else can be done.

JackieMiles wrote:

30 Oct 2017

Just from a quick look I'd say this might be potentilloides, because of the short dense hairs on the stems/pedicels, plus the high altitude occurrence.

BettyDonWood wrote:

30 Oct 2017

Until Jackie pointed it out, I had not noticed that this plant has short, curved, somewhat appressed hairs on the flower stalk, and the other one long hairs.

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