Pelargonium oblongatum E.Mey.

Tuber an oblong or turnip-shaped root, 30-150 mm long, 20-30 mm in diameter. Leaves bright green, petiolate; lamina simple, ovate or orbicular, 25-110 x 20-105 mm, base cordate or truncate, apex obtuse or rounded, margin irregularly dentate, ciliate, adaxially covered with long and short glandular hairs, abaxially densely covered with short soft patent hairs interspersed with glandular hairs; petiole 10-70(-100) mm long, 2-3(-6) mm in diameter, prostrate, covered with long glandular hairs; stipules triangular, adnate to petioles for half or more of their length, 5-25 x 2-5 mm, ciliate, apices laterally curved. Inflorescence: scape 10-180 mm long, 2-5 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-5(-7) pseudo-umbellets with 4-8(-24) flowers each; peduncles 10-70 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter, covered with glandular hairs sparsely interspersed with long soft patent hairs; bracts lanceolate, 8-10 x 3-5 mm, reflexed, abaxially hirsute with patent hairs. Pedicels ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 33-68 mm long, green, densely covered with glandular hairs interspersed with long stiff patent hairs. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 13-20 x 2-5 mm, green, apices attenuate; posterior one erect; others patent; indumentum as on peduncle. Petals 5, pale yellow or cream-coloured, patent during anthesis with apices recurved; posterior two with wine-red feather-like markings, unguiculate-obovate to widely unguicu-late-obovate, 22-35 x 7.5-15.0 mm, bases cuneate, apices truncate or emar-ginate; anterior three widely spathulate, 15-28 x 5-10 mm, bases narrowly cuneate, apices rounded. Stamens: staminal column.2-4 mm long, white; perfect stamens 5, protruding from flower, bending upwards, posterior one 8-20 mm long, lateral two 14.5-25.0 mm long, anterior two 17-31 mm long, white; staminodes 4-6 mm long; anthers wine-red, 3-4 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary 3.5-8.0 mm long; style 6-14 mm long, white or pale green; stigma branches 1.2-2.5 mm long, adaxially pink. Fruit: bases of mericarps 6-7 mm long, with prominent glandular hairs, tails ±30 mm long.