Geranium purpureum

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Family Geraniaceae

Taxonomy: Geranium purpureum Vill.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Geranium purpureum Vill. subsp. purpureum (nomenclatural synonym)
Geranium robertianum subsp. purpureum (Vill.) Nyman (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (8), NHNSW_2023 (30), Sjostrom_2006 (2), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 50 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 17 mm (12-22 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (30-70 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 10 cm (10-10 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (2); widely_ovate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3); shrub (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3); biennial (3); perennial (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): compact (1); decumbent (2); erect (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; WAH_2022_2]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.37 m (0.3-0.4 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	12	30	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	8	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.