Geranium pulchrum N.E.Br.

Robust subshrub up to 1.2 m high, stems one or several from the base, becoming bare and woody there, up to ±10 mm diam., silky canescent and leafy above, erect or decumbent. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-acuminate. Leaves all cauline, petioles long, all but the uppermost much exceeding the blade in length, with silvery retrorse appressed hairs, blade up to ±120 mm diam., much smaller in upper leaves, digitately 5(-7)-lobed nearly to the base (ratio 4.5-10:1 measured on medium lobe), each lobe elliptic in outline, sharply and irregularly lobed and toothed, apex acute, mucronate, upper surface with appressed hairs, lower surface thickly silvery silky tomentose, the hairs all of similar length. Peduncles terminal and opposite the uppermost leaves, forming large almost leafless compound cymes clad in coarse ± retrorse white hairs as well as gland-tipped spreading ones, ultimate peduncles mostly 2-flowered. Pedicels up to ±60 mm long, hairy as the peduncles. Sepals 7-9 x 3-5 mm, excluding the mucro, with appressed hairs as well as spreading gland-tipped ones. Petals 17-22 x 11-19 mm, obovate, shallowly notched, light purple or deep pink, sometimes lighter or white at the centre. Rostrum with spreading gland-tipped hairs.