Pelargonium pinnatum l'hér. Steud.

A geophyte 110-300 mm tall when in flower. Tuber a turnip-shaped or elongated root 12-40 mm long and 10-30 mm in diameter. Leaves: lamina pinnate, 25-70 mm long, pinnae ovate, acute, 5-12 x 3-6 mm, the terminal pinna more or less the same size as the other pinnae, adaxially and abaxially hirsute with appressed hairs interspersed with glandular hairs; petiole 25-80 mm long and ±1 mm in diameter, indumentum as on pinnae; stipules 15-30 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide, hirsute. Inflorescence: scape (25-)40-180 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-4 pseudo-umbellets with (2-)4-8 flowers each; peduncles 25-140 mm long, 1.-2 mm in diameter, densely hirsute with distally appressed curly hairs interspersed with long soft patent hairs and glandular hairs; bracts narrowly triangular, 2-6(-9) mm long, 1 mm wide, abaxially hirsute with distally appressed hairs. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 11-35(-45) mm long, covered with distally appressed curly hairs, interspersed with glandular hairs. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acute, 6-11 mm long, 1.2-3.5 mm wide, posterior one erect, others recurved, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle. Petals 5, white, cream-coloured, yellow, pale pink to salmon-pink or bright pink or deep purple, claws orientated close together forming a floral sheath, apices patent during anthesis; posterior two with feather-like wine-red markings, spathulate, bases cuneate, apices rounded to emarginate, 11-24 x 3-10 mm, claws 9-14 mm long; anterior three spathulate, bases attenuate, apices rounded, 10-23 x 2-5-5 mm. Stamens concealed in floral sheath, staminal column 0.5-2.5 mm long, white; perfect stamens 5, posterior one 1.5-4 mm long, lateral two 2.5-5.5 mm long, anterior two 4.5-7 mm long, white; staminodes 1.5-3.5 mm long; anthers pink, 1-2.5 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary 2.5-4 mm long; style 0.3-1.5 mm long, red; stigma branches 1-2.5 mm long, dark pink. Fruit: bases of mericarps 5-6 mm long, tails 23-28 mm long. The peak of the flowering time throughout the distribution area is from November to January, but in the southern Cape flowers are quite common until March.