Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Geraniales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Geraniaceae
Genus
Pelargonium L'Hér. ex Aiton
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pelargonium inodorum Willd., Hort. Berol. 1(3), t. 34 (1804)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Geranium inodorum (Willd.) Poir., Encycl. 752 (1812)
Type:—probably from AUSTRALIA or NEW ZEALAND (erroneously cited in the protologue as SOUTH AFRICA: “Habitat ad Caput bonae spei?”): B, Willdenow herbarium, B-W 12435-01 0 (lectotype, designated by Mosyakin & de Lange 2019)
  • = Pelargonium clandestinum L'Hér. ex DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 1, 660 (1824)
  • = Pelargonium erodioides Hook., Journal of Botany 1: 252 (1834)
  • = Pelargonium australe var. erodioides Benth., Fl. Austral. 1, 299 (1863)
  • = Erodium peristeroides Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 36: 592 (1863)
Type:—NEW ZEALAND: KW, barcodes KW001001021 and KW001001022 (Mosyakin & de Lange 2019)
Vernacular Name(s):
Kōpata; Kōpatapata; pukupuku
 Description

Annual or biennial hairy herb; stems sprawling, grooved, procumbent or spreading, sparingly branched. Petioles to 10–(30) cm long. Stipules small, ovate, ± scarious. Lamina (1)–1.5–5.5–(11) × (1)–1.7–5.5–(11) cm, broad-ovate or ± reniform, not lobed or with 3–5 shallow lobes, crenate or crenulate; base deeply and broadly cordate. Fls irregular, 5–15 in dense umbels; peduncles to c. 10 cm long, very slender; pedicels to c. 6 mm long. Sepals 2.5–5 mm long, ovate-oblong, mucronate or acute; calyx spur minute. Petals 3.5–6.5 mm long, usually pink or rose with purplish streaks on larger upper 2, occasionally white, spathulate, obovate, or oblanceolate. Mericarps 2–2.8 mm long; awn with long, patently pilose hairs. Seed black.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.

 Bibliography
Bentham, G. 1863: Flora Australiensis. Edition 1.
de Candolle, A.P. 1824: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 1. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique. Panckoucke, Paris.
Journal of Botany
Mosyakin, S.L.; de Lange, P.J. 2019: Notes on typification and nomenclature of four taxa of Geraniaceae described by Turczaninow from New Zealand and Australia. Phytotaxa 419(2): 169–181.
Turczaninow, N.S. 1863: Animadversiones ad catalogum primum et secundum herbarii Universitatis Charkowiensis [Addenda to Animadversiones Parts 1 and 2]. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Moscow 36(Part 1, No. 2): 545–615.
Willdenow, C.L. 1804: Hortus Berolinensis, sive icones et descriptiones plantarum rariorum vel minus cognitarum, quae in Horto Regio Botanico Berolinensi excoluntur. Vol. 1. Part 3. Impensis Fr. Schüppel, Berolini [Berlin].