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Medicine- Traditionally used to treat Headache and ulcers
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Temperate biome, at altitude of 24000-4500m.
Perennial herb.
Stem 7-64 cm tall, erect, not rooting at nodes, subglabrous or with a variable indumentum composed of 0.1-0.3 mm uncinate nonglandular trichomes, 0.8-2.2 mm patent nonglandular trichomes, and 0.2-1.3 mm patent glandular trichomes in different combinations.
Leaves are distinctly rounded in outline, mostly 2-4 cm across, deeply 5-9-lobed, the lobed obovate and further cut at the tip into blunt segments. Stipules are fused. Stems are 10-30 cm long.
Flowers of most Geraniums of the Himalayas occur only in pairs. Flowers are 1.5-3 cm across, petals 1.2-1.3 cm long. Sepals have long soft spreading glandular hairs on the outside, and are hairless on the inside.
Fruits are coarsely netted.
Flowering: June: August.