Linnaeus, C. (19 February 1755), Centuria I. Plantarum: 21 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europa australiori."

Hooker, J.D. (10 June 1852), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(1): 39 [secondary reference]

Gray, A. (1854), United States Exploring Expedition Phanerogamia 1: 308 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (24 October 1855), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(1): 56 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 173-175 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Geranium parviflorum Willd. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Geranium potentilloides L'Hér. ex DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Geranium philonothum DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Geranium retrorsum L'Hér. ex DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Geranium brevicaule Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Geranium australe Nees nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 76 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 55 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 19 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Geranium pilosum Sol. ex Willd. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Geranium potentilloides L'Hér. ex DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Geranium dissectum var. australe Benth. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 91 [secondary reference]

common name: Cut-leaved Cranesbill [n/a]

Carolin, R.C. (1965), The genus Geranium in the South Western Pacific Area. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(3): 335-336 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 195 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (1967), Geraniaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 102: 12 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 96, Fig. 26C [secondary reference]

common name: Cut-leaved Cranesbill [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 101 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Geraniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 26 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 258-259 [secondary reference]

Smith, L.P. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Geranium. Flora of Victoria 4: 223, Fig. 41d [secondary reference]

common name: Cut-leaf Crane's-bill [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 621 [secondary reference]

common name: Cutleaf Cranesbill [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Geranium molle L. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 482

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NI (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 49 [secondary reference]

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