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Synonyms: |
Pelargonium goetzeanum Engl. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Decumbent, straggling perennial herb; stems up to 1·3 m long, often reddish, arising from a woody rootstock. Vegetative parts, peduncles and pedicels with sessile glands and often more or less pubescent. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate in outline, up to 5 cm long and wide, cordate, 3-partite to 3-foliolate, sometimes only shallowly 3-lobed or pinnatifid to pinnatisect; segments or pinnae more or less rhombic, almost unlobed to very deeply lobed, hairs scattered, often restricted to the margin and veins; margin crenate; petiole mostly 2–7 cm long; stipules, narrowly ovate to very broadly ovate, 5–10 mm. Inflorescence a terminal pseudumbel of 1–5 flowers; peduncle 5–9 cm long, leaf-opposed or in the axil of the smaller of two apparently opposite leaves; bracts 4–8, lanceolate, 5-8 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 9–14 mm long, glandular and sparsely pubescent, with conspicuous red veins. Petals 4, pink with red veins, oblanceolate to more or less spathulate; 2 posterior ones sometimes longer than the anterior ones. Fruit 3–4 cm long. |
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Derivation of specific name: | whytei: after Alexander Whyte (1834-1908), Scottish plant explorer, and botanist who collected in Liberia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda. |
Habitat: | Open scrub and grassland. |
Altitude range: | 1500 - 2440 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Eastern DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
Malawi distribution: | N,C |
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Endemic status: | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Friday 7 September 2018 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 180. Mueller, T. (1963). Geraniaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 143 - 144. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 67. |
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