Pelargonium nephrophyllum E.M.Marais

A deciduous geophyte with a small regularly shaped subterranean tuber, 50-120 mm tall when in flower. Tuber a turnip-shaped root with a short flattened stem, covered with flaking dark brown periderms, 25-30 mm long and 18-25 mm in diameter. Leaves radical, hysteranthous, rosulate, simple, petiolate; lamina reniform, palmately veined, apex rounded, margin deeply crenate, (10-)15-25 x (13-)18-27 mm, adaxially green, sparsely hirsute, abaxially reddish-purple, with a few very short glandular hairs, margins with short appressed bristles; petiole 40-80 mm long and 1 mm in diameter, rigid, spreading horizontally from the growing point and bending vertically in the middle, covered with short glandular hairs interspersed with bristles; stipules narrowly triangular, adnate to petioles for one third of their length, 2-3 mm long and ±1 mm wide, ciliate. Inflorescence: scape 10-40 mm long, branched, bearing 2 pseudo-umbellets with 3-7 flowers each; peduncles 25-75 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, hirsute with distally appressed curly hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; bracts lanceolate, 5-8 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, adaxially and abaxially densely hirsute with distally appressed hairs; flower buds, flowers and fruits erect. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 20-30 mm long, indumentum as on peduncle. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apex acute, 6-9 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, recurved, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle, pale reddish-brown with margins white to pink. Petals 5, pink to salmon-pink with an orange blotch in the centre, patent during anthesis; posterior two obcordate, bases cuneate, apices emarginate, 12-14 x 6.5-8 mm; anterior three spathulate, bases narrowly cuneate, apices rounded, 11-14 x 2.5-3.5 mm. Stamens 10, basally connate, staminal column 1.5-2 mm long, pale pink; perfect stamens 5, posterior one 3-4 mm long, lateral two 5 mm long, anterior two 7-8 mm long, pink; staminodes 2-3.5 mm long; anthers dark pink, ±2 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary superior, oblong-conical, 5-lobed, 2.5-3 mm long, densely sericeous; style filiform, 1-2 mm long, dark pink; stigma with 5 recurved branches, 1-1.5 mm long, dark pink; fruit a schizocarp consisting of 5 mericarps, bases of mericarps 4 mm long, tails 13-17 mm long.