Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pelargonium rodneyanum

Flowers and leaf. Photographer Richard Hartland, Fryers Ridge SE of Castlemaine, Vic

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Magenta storksbill

Family

Geraniaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, grassland, and rocky areas. Mainly ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from the Budawang Range. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to about 0.4 m high. Stems with short glandular hairs and a few simple hairs. Leaves all or mostly at the base of the plant, stem leaves, if present, opposite each other or at branchings of the stems. Leaves 2–5.5 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, entire or shallowly 5–7-lobed, the lobes scalloped, veins sparsely hairy. Flowers deep pink, with 5 very unequal petals each 12-20 mm long, sometimes veined or blotched darker, and 7-8 stamens that produce pollen. Sepals 2–8 mm long, with pointed tips, hairy with short hairs, often with scattered longer and/or coarser hairs, sepal spur 3–9 mm long. Flowers in 2–7-flowered clusters. Flowers Nov.–May.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pelargonium~rodneyanum (accessed 30 January, 2021)