Pelargonium petroselinifolium G.Don

A geophyte 80-180 mm tall when in flower. Tuber, a turnip-shaped or elongated, sometimes moniliform root 15-40 mm long and 10-30 mm in diameter. Leaves: lamina elliptic in outline, 30-60 mm long, pinnately compound, irregularly bipinnatifid, pinnae obtriangular, 12-18 x 6-10 mm, bases cuneate, apices deeply incised; segments 2-3 mm wide, apices obtuse, with or without a single hair, adaxially and abaxially hirsute with appressed hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; petiole 30-50 mm long and 1-2 mm in diameter, rigid, erecto-patent, densely covered with very short curly hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; stipules subulate, adnate to the petiole for half to almost its full length, 7-20 mm long and 1-2 mm wide, ciliate. Inflorescence: scape 5-50 mm long, 1.5-3 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-5 pseudo-umbellets with (3-)5-8(-10) flowers each; peduncles 35-120 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, densely covered with short appressed curly hairs interspersed with long and short glandular hairs; bracts lanceolate, 2-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, abaxially hirsute with appressed hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs. Pedicel ca. 0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 13-25 mm long, green to pale reddish brown, indumentum as on peduncle, hypanthium/sepal ratio 2-3.5. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acute, 5.5-7 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, posterior one erect, others reflexed, green or pale reddish brown with margins white, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle. Petals 5, pink; posterior two with wine-red feather-like markings, ligulate to narrowly spathulate, bases cuneate, apices emarginate, 11-16.5 x 2.2-3.5 mm, length/width ratio 4-5; anterior three narrowly spathulate, bases attenuate, apices rounded, 10.5-14 x 2-3 mm. Stamens: staminal column 1-2 mm long, white; perfect stamens 5, concealed in the floral sheath, posterior one 2-3 mm long, lateral two 3-5 mm long, anterior two 4-6 mm long, white; staminodes 1.5-3 mm long; anthers pink, 1.3-1.8 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary 2.5-3 mm long; style 0.5-1.5 mm long, wine-red; stigma branches 1-1.5 mm long, wine-red. Fruit: bases of mericarps 5-6 mm long, with glandular hairs, tails 27-28 mm long.