Pelargonium angustipetalum E.M.Marais

A deciduous geophyte with a subterranean tuber, 80-240 mm tall when in flower. Tuber: a turnip-shaped or elongated root with a short flattened stem, covered with flaking dark brown periderms, 30-35 mm long and 15-20 mm in diameter. Leaves radical, green, petiolate; lamina palmately compound with 3-5 pinnae; pinnae 50-90 mm long, sometimes deeply incised, segments 20-40 mm long and 2-7 mm wide, apices acute, hirsute with appressed stiff hairs interspersed with very short glandular hairs; petiole 80-260 mm long and 1-1.5 mm in diameter, rigid, erect, setose with short appressed hairs interspersed with very short glandular hairs; stipules subulate, adnate to petioles for half their length, 10-15 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, hirsute. Inflorescence: scape 15-150 mm long and 1.5-2 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-7 pseudo-umbellets with 4-12 flowers each; peduncles 20-100 mm long, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, hirsute with short appressed stiff hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; bracts lanceolate, apices acute, 2 mm long, 1 mm wide, abaxially densely hirsute with appressed hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; flower buds, flowers and fruits erect. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 21-35 mm long, 2.5-5 times the length of the sepals, pale green to reddish brown, indumentum as on peduncle. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acuminate, 6-8 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, posterior one erect, others patent, green with margins white, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle. Petals 5,cream-coloured or pale yellow, claws forming a sheath, apices patent or recurved; posterior two ligulate with pink feather-like markings on the lower half, bases cuneate, apices rounded, 21-26 x 2-3 mm, length/width ratio 7.5-9; anterior three ligulate, bases attenuate, apices rounded, 19-23 x 1-2 mm. Stamens 10, basally connate, staminal column 0.5-1 mm long, white; perfect stamens 5, concealed in the floral sheath, posterior one 1.5-2 mm long, lateral two 2.5-4 mm long, anterior two 5-6 mm long, 0.6-0.8 times the length of the sepals, white; staminodes 1-2 mm long; anthers red, 1.5-2 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary superior, oblong-conical, 5-lobed. 2-3 mm long, densely sericeous; style filiform, 0.2-1.5 mm long, pale green; stigma with 5 recurved branches, 1-2 mm long, adaxially pink. Fruit: a schizocarp consisting of 5 mericarps, bases of mericarps 5 mm long, with glandular hairs, tails 21-26 mm long. Flowering time is in summer, from November to December after the leaves have died.