YASIN J. NASIR

The variety resembles Geranium rubifolium from which it differs in the slender habit, appressed pubescent pedicels and peduncle (rarely glandular), the more or less membranous leaves with a deeper and irregularly divided segments. The sepal awn is shorter (2-3) mm. Stipules rarely 2-fid.

Fl. Per.: July August.

Type: USSR: Baskan Vy., Ala-Tau., Dzungaria (LE).

Distribution: Soviet C. Asia, N.W. Himalaya.

Our plant differs from the description given by Edgeworth and J.D. Hooker as follows: stems not very slender and sepals are not long awned.