Geranium brycei N.E.Br.

Perennial herb or subshrub up to 1 cm tall, though often much shorter, stems one or several from the base, eventually bare and woody there, up to ±10 mm diam., erect or decumbent, upper parts thinly pilose, hairs spreading. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-acuminate. Leaves crowded at the branch tips with more distantly leafy flowering branches arising laterally; petioles 30-300 mm long, progressively shorter upwards, uppermost leaves reduced and subsessile, thinly pilose with spreading or slightly retrorse hairs, sometimes a few with delicate gland tips; blade 20-150 mm diam., nearly orbicular in outline, digitately 5(-7)-lobed to at least 3/4 the depth of the radius, each lobe ± obtuse, shaggy white spreading hairs above, closely matted white hairs between the veins below, veins raised, brown or pallid, clothed in long spreading hairs. Peduncles terminal and opposite the upper leaves, in well grown specimens forming large compound cymes, ultimate peduncles mostly 2-flowered, all pilose, the coarser hairs ± spreading, many of them gland-tipped, or glands occasionally few or wanting. Pedicels ±15-55 mm long, hairy as the peduncles. Sepals 6-9.5 x 2-4 mm, excluding the mucro, with short fine appressed pubescence as well as long spreading often gland-tipped hairs. Petals 14-20 x 10-13 mm, obovate, shallowly notched, pale or deep violet, purple-blue, or light magenta-violet, sometimes with a white patch near the base, veins sometimes reddish. Rostrum with spreading gland-tipped hairs.