Pelargonium laevigatum Willd.

Erect and compact or prostrate and lax subshrub, much branched, evergreen, 0.3-0.5 (-1) m high and 0.3-0.5 m in diameter. Stems smooth, herbaceous, glabrous or glabrescent, grey or glaucous. Leaves unifoliolate to tri-foliolate, articulated to petiole, subsucculent, glabrous or pilose to hirsute, with sparse glandular hairs, glaucous; pinnae sessile, lanceolate to terete, bases cuneate, apices acute, margins entire or irregularly dentate to incised with linear segments, pinnae (10-)20-40(-70) x 1-10 mm; petiole (4-)15-20(-40) mm long; stipules free, subulate, 3-11 x 0.2-1.0 mm, somewhat succulent, glabrous to pilose. Inflorescence: flowers borne singly or in reduced pseudo-umbels of 2-5 flowers each, peduncle (6-)30-50(-100) mm long, glabrous to pilose. Pedicel 0.5-13 mm long, glabrous or with glandular hairs. Hypanthium 4-38 mm long, glabrous or with glandular hairs. Sepals 5, narrowly ovate, adaxially concave, apices acute, glabrous or pilose to hirsute, green to reddish brown with hyaline margins, 6-12 x 1.5-3.5 mm. Petals 5, white or cream-coloured or pink; posterior 2 spathulate with apices obtuse or rounded or refuse, 11-30 x 4-9 mm, reflexed at ±90° from the middle, with reddish purple markings at base; anterior 3 spathulate to narrowly obovate with apices obtuse or rounded or retuse, somewhat smaller (11-20 x 3-6 mm) and somewhat lighter in colour than posterior petals, gradually recurved so that apices are at an angle of ±90° with bases, with fine purplish lines near bases. Stamens: fertile 7(4 long, 1 medium, 2 short), staminodes 3, filaments basally fused forming a staminal column 2-3 mm long; pollen yellow to orange. Ovary ovate, 5-lobed, pilose; style glabrous or sparsely pilose basally, 11 mm long; stigmas 5, purplish, 1-2 mm long. Mericarps: 20-30 mm long; bases 3.5-6.0 mm long, tails 16-24 mm long.