Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon Literature for Geranium multiflorum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
   Geraniaceae -- The Geranium Family Bibliography
      Geranium multiflorum

Common name(s): cranesbill, hinahina, nohoanu
General Information
DistributionIn the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Maui.
















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Habit
Compact, many-branched shrubs 10-20(-30) dm tall; stems gray to reddish or dark gray, branches covered with persistent stipules, densely leafy only toward apex.
Leaves
Leaves alternate, ovate to elliptic or occasionally obovate, (3.2-)4.5-7(-9.9) cm long, 1.5-3(-3.8) cm wide, usually 7-11-nerved, upper surface green and glabrous to moderately silky strigose, rarely densely silky strigose, lower surface densely grayish green to gray silky strigose, margins serrate at least 1/3 from apex, sometimes nearly to base, with 7-15 teeth on each side, apex acute to rounded, petioles (1-)1.5-2.5(-3) cm long, stipules subulate, 7-10 mm long, strigillose.
Flowers
Flowers usually 25-50 in compound cymes, forming large corymbose inflorescences that project beyond the leaves, peduncles usually 1.5-3 cm long, pedicels 0.3-0.8 cm long, elongating up to 1 cm long in fruit; sepals often purple-tinged, narrowly elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, 6-9 mm long, densely silky strigose, apex with an awn 0.1-1 mm long; petals white, usually with purple veins and purple at base, or pink to dark purple, narrowly obovate, 10-15 mm long; staminal filaments usually 6-8 mm long; styles 5-6 mm long at anthesis, elongating to 14-20 mm long in fruit, beakless, branches filiform, reflexed. Carpel bodies 2.5-3 mm long, sparsely pubescent.
Seeds
Seeds 1 per cell, dark reddish brown, oblong-obovoid, ca. 2 mm long, the surface inconspicuously reticulate and shiny.