Pelargonium hispidum Willd.

Erect, branched, faintly lemon-scented shrub, up to 2.5 m high and 1 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous when young but soon becoming woody, pubescent to hirsute and with glandular hairs interspersed, green but becoming greyish with age. Leaves pubescent to hirsute and with glandular hairs interspersed, green to dull green; lamina palmatilobate to palmatisect with segments sometimes irregularly incised, conspicuously veined abaxially, base cordate, apices of lobes acute, margins irregularly sinuous to dentate, (50-)90-120(-250) x (60-)100-130(-270) mm; petiole (50-)80(-130) mm long; stipules lanceolate, 7-10 x 2-3 mm. Inflorescence: flowering branches profusely branched, with smaller foliar leaves, peduncles 10-40 mm long, hirsute and densely interspersed with glandular hairs; involucral bracts lanceolate, indumentum as on peduncles, 6-8 x 1-2 mm; pseudo-umbels with 6-12 flowers each. Pedicel 5-7 mm long; indumentum as on peduncles. Hypanthium 3-4 mm long, prominently thickened at the base. Sepals lanceolate, indumentum as on peduncles, green with reddish-brown bases and white margins, ±8 x 2-3.5 mm. Petals pale to deep pink; posterior two asymmetric-obovate, with wine-red feather-like markings, reflexed at more than 90°, ±12 x 7 mm; anterior three spathulate with long and narrow claws, with darker pigmentation towards bases, practically straight, ±8 x 2 mm.