Pelargonium multicaule Jacq.

Procumbent, much-branched subshrub, up to 0.3 m high and 1 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous, bases of older stems somewhat woody, sometimes angular, hirtellous to hirsute and with glandular hairs and sometimes longer hairs interspersed, green but sometimes flushed with red and becoming greyish-brown with age. Leaves: lamina sparsely hirtellous to strigose and with glandular hairs interspersed, green but sometimes flushed with red, narrowly cordiform to cordiform in outline, trifoliolate or trifid to pinnatifid with the pinnae/segments irregularly incised, base of lamina cordate, apices of segments obtuse, margins irregularly crenate, (20-)40(-80) x (15-)30(-40) mm; petiole indumentum as on stems, (10-)30 (-130) mm long; stipules ovate, sometimes cuspidate, indumentum as on stems, ±6 x 5 mm. Inflorescence: peduncles (30-)80(-150) mm long, hirtellous and densely interspersed with glandular hairs; involucral bracts ovate, densely covered with glandular hairs and margins ciliate, ±5 x 3 mm; pseudo-umbels with 2-5 flowers each. Pedicel 1-2 mm long. Hypanthium 8-25 mm long, indumentum as on peduncle. Sepals lanceolate, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle, green but prominently raised veins dark green to brownish to red. Petals 4, white to pinkish or dark pinkish-purple with light coloured claws; posterior two asymmetric-obovate with narrow claws, with pinkish or dark purple streaks and a white blotch at base of plate, reflexed at ±90°, ±20 x 8 mm; anterior two narrowly spathulate to spathulate with long claws, slightly reflexed, ±12 x 4 mm. Fertile stamens 7(4 long, 1 medium, 2 short), protruding below anterior petals, staminal column ±2 mm long, pollen orange. Mericarps: as yet unknown.