Occurrence of Geranium mascatense (Geraniaceae) in India and the speculations about its global distribution Author Hurrah, Imtiyaz A. 0000-0003-4331-4790 Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow- 226001 (Uttar Pradesh), India & Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad- 201002 (Uttar Pradesh), India & saithimtiyaz 18 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4331 - 4790 saithimtiyaz18@gmail.com Author Shukla, Aparna R. 0000-0003-2544-2502 Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow- 226001 (Uttar Pradesh), India & aparnashukla 602 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2544 - 2502 aparnashukla602@gmail.com Author Wagh, Vijay V. 0000-0002-6890-8862 Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow- 226001 (Uttar Pradesh), India & Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad- 201002 (Uttar Pradesh), India & vijay. wagh @ nbri. res. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6890 - 8862 vijay.wagh@nbri.res.in text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-05-25 598 3 206 218 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.598.3.2 journal article 53381 10.11646/phytotaxa.598.3.2 91cf42ce-c85f-486e-bfc4-124528e9e165 1179-3163 7969914

TABLE 1. Comparison of characters of G. mascatense and G. ocellatum.

Characters	G. mascatense	G. ocellatum
Basal leaves	Deciduous	Persistent
Lower cauline leaves	Alternate	Opposite
Lamina	Pentagonal, with rhombic to	Orbicular-polygonal, with
	obtrullate segments	obtriangular segments
Indumentum on adaxial surface	Papillose type eglandular hairs	Papillose type eglandular hairs
	Present	absent or rarely present
Leaf segment lobes	Longer than broad	Either shorter or as long as broad
Sepals	Accrescent	Not accrescent
Mericarps	2.8–3.5 mm long, with prominent beak	2.1–2.3 mm long, slightly beaked
Mericarp surface	4–6 prominent ribs laterally connected	08–10 less prominent ribs not
		laterally connected
Gap b/w ribs	Ribs separated by 0.2 – 0.5 mm wide	Ribs separated by 0.1–0.2 mm wide
	deep furrows	shallow furrows
Mericarp hairs	Ca. 0.1 mm long, eglandular hairs with	Mericarp entirely glabrous
obtuse apex on ribs