Geranium robustum Kuntze

Species

Angiosperms > Geraniales > Geraniaceae > Geranium

Characteristics

Robust subshrub up to elm high, stems one or several from the base, becoming bare and woody there, up to ±8 mm diam., silky canescent and leafy above, erect. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-acuminate. Leaves all cauline, all but the uppermost petioles 2-3 times as long as the blade, with white retrorse appressed hairs, blade up to 50(-100) mm in diam., digitately (3-)5(-7)-lobed to the base, each lobe elliptic-lanceolate in outline, twice pinnatifid, the ultimate segments lanceolate, entire or with an occasional tooth, upper surface with silky silvery appressed hairs, lower thickly silvery tomentose, the hairs all of similar length. Peduncles terminal and opposite the uppermost, reduced, leaves, forming small almost leafless compound cymes clad in fine retrorse appressed hairs, spreading gland-tipped hairs often present as well; ultimate peduncles mostly 2-flowered. Pedicels up to ±60 mm long, with fine appressed retrorse hairs as well as few to many spreading gland-tipped ones. Sepals (6-)7-9 x 2.5-3.5(-4) mm, ± appressed pubescent, often with long spreading gland-tipped hairs as well. Petals (13-)18-20 x 11-12(-15) mm,obovate, shallowly notched, light purple. Rostrum with short fine spreading pubescence, often with long spreading gland-tipped hairs as well.
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Robust, subshrub, 0.2-1.0 m high. Leaves all cauline, petiolate, lamina up to 50-100 mm in diam., digitally (3-)5(-7)-lobed, each lobe twice pinnatifid, elliptic-lanceolate in outline, segments narrowly ovate, margins entire with an occasional tooth, upper surface with silvery appressed hairs, lower surface silvery tomentose. Inflorescences terminal and opposite to upper leaves; of small, almost leafless, 2-flowered, compound cymes; pedicels up to 60 mm long; hairs fine, appressed-retrorse with few to many spreading, gland-tipped ones. Petals 13-20 x 11-15 mm long, light purple; Nov.-Mar.
Dwarf shrub, 0.2-1.8 m high; robust. Stems erect, silky canescent and leafy above. Leaves all cauline, silvery, twice pinnatifid; blade up to 50-100 mm in diameter, segments narrowly ovate, margins entire, occasional toothed, upper surface with silvery appressed hairs, lower surface thick silvery tomentose; petioles 2-3 x longer than blade. Flowers: inflorescence usually 2-flowered; peduncles opposite on upper surface and terminal, pedicels up to 60 mm long, with fine appressed retrorse hairs and few to many, spreading, gland-tipped ones; petals 13-20 x 11-15 mm, light purple; Nov.-Mar.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 1.0
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Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-6
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Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-10

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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
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Distribution

Geranium robustum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:373595-1
WFO ID wfo-0000701251
COL ID 3FV59
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Synonyms

Geranium robustum Geranium incanum var. pottiae