Geranium dregei Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Diffuse perennial herb developing a thick woody stock, stems slender, sprawling, rooting at the nodes and there producing leaf tufts and new branches, with ± retrorse, spreading hairs. Stipules deeply dissected, segments lanceolate-acuminate. Leaves initially loosely tufted at the regeneration points, petioles long, all but the uppermost much exceeding the blade in length, hairs ± retrorse, spreading, blade up to 35 mm in diam., digitately (3-)5-lobed, at least the middle lobe to the base, each lobe deeply pinnatifid, these segments up to 2 mm broad, oblong, upper surface with coarse appressed hairs, lower with coarse spreading hairs. Peduncles opposite the uppermost leaves and much exceeding them, with retrorse ± appressed hairs, 1-or 2-flowered. Pedicels up to 20 mm long, sometimes a little longer in fruit, hairy like the peduncles. Sepals 4-4.5 x 1.5-2 mm excluding mucro, finely appressed-pubescent. Petals 7-8.5 x 3-4 mm, shallowly notched, pale pink. Rostrum with short fine ± appressed hairs.