Distribution Map

Geranium wakkerstroomianum

                   
                   
               
(Geranium ornithopodum)
(Geranium ornithopodum var. album)
(Geranium ornithopodioides)

Geraniaceae   

As at April 2024, 12 herbarium specimens, 12 photo records

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Southern Africa only
Found within protected areas: Malolotja

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Geranium ornithopodum - Slender straggling herbaceous perennial, slightly hairy throughout, hairs on stems often turned backwards. Leaf-stalk up to 4 cm long, blade deeply three- or five-lobed, main lobes with few lateral lobes or notches, as wide as or wider than long, up to 2,5 cm long X 3,5 cm wide, paler beneath. Flowers usually two on slender stalks springing from common stalk c 3 cm long; sepals green, hairy, clearly veined, c 7 mm long with slender tips; petals five, white, c 1 cm long, tip broad, notched; five glands inside petals, alternating with them; stamens ten, usually of two lengths, filaments broader at base; ovary five-lobed, styles united into stiff beak, stigmas five, spreading. One-seeded portions of fruit separate, each with its own tail, splitting away from beak.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.