Pelargonium glabriphyllum E.M.Marais

A deciduous geophyte with a regular subterranean tuber, 130-170 mm tall when in flower. Tuber, a turnip-shaped root, sometimes with more than one stem growing point, covered with flaking dark brown periderms, 25-45(-150) mm long and 40-50(-150) mm in diameter. Leaves radical, juvenile leaves simple, others pinnatisect, bright green, petiolate; lamina elliptic in outline, 40-60 mm long, pinnae obovate, 7-20 x 5-15 mm, apices obtuse, margins entire, ciliate, adaxially glabrous and abaxially with appressed stiff hairs along main veins; petiole 30-85 mm long and ±2 mm in diameter, prostrate, densely hirsute with appressed curly hairs; stipules subulate, adnate to petioles for two thirds of their length, 15-20 mm x 1-2 mm, adaxially densely hirsute with appressed hairs. Inflorescence: scape (10-)30-50 mm long, reddish-green, densely hirsute with short appressed hairs, branched, bearing 3-6(-8) pseudo-umbellets with 3-7(-10) flowers each; peduncles 45-90(-160) mm long, densely hirsute with short appressed hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs, reddish-green; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, abaxially densely hirsute with distally appressed hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; flower buds, flowers and fruits erect. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 16-20(-25) mm long, 3-4 times the length of the sepals, green to greenish-brown, indumentum as on peduncle. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acute, 4.5-6 mm x 1-2.5 mm, posterior one erect, others reflexed, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle, green to reddish-green, margins white. Petals 5, white, pale pink or salmon, patent during anthesis; posterior two with minute wine-red feather-like markings, ligulate, 14-15 x 1.5-2.5 mm, length/ width ratio 6-10, claws 5-6 x 2 mm, apices rounded; anterior three spathulate, 10-12 x 1.6-2.5 mm, bases attenuate, apices rounded. Stamens 10, basally connate, staminal column 1-1.5 mm long, smooth, white; perfect stamens 5, posterior one 2-2.5 mm long, lateral two 3-4 mm long, anterior two 4-5 mm long, shorter than the sepals, white; staminodes 1.5-2 mm long; anthers pink, 1.5-2 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary superior, oblong-conical, 5-lobed, 2-3.5 mm long, densely sericeous; style filiform, 0.2-1 mm long, pink; stigma with 5 recurved branches, 1-2 mm long, adaxially pink. Fruit: a schizocarp consisting of 5 mericarps, bases of mericarps 5-5.5 mm long, with glandular hairs, tails ±23 mm long.