Pelargonium schizopetalum Sweet

Geophyte, with short, often branching tuber. Leaves deciduous, glandular, pinnately incised with crenate margin, somewhat fleshy, 50-160 x 30-110 mm, with thick abaxially channelled or flattened petioles; stipules lanceolate, fused to base of petioles. Scape unbranched, up to 0.5 m tall, covered in coarse hairs, terminating in inflorescence. Inflorescence a 5-20-flowered pseudo-umbel. Pedicel 8-20 mm long. Hypanthium 60-75 mm long. Sepals 5, green, convex, reflexing in mature flowers. Petals 5, equal or almost so, each fimbriately divided, yellow to yellow-green to purple, with red or purple stripes, 2 posterior petals sometimes paler than 3 anterior petals. Stamens 10, basally fused, forming a tube, 7 of these bearing anthers; anthers purple on outside, introrse, shedding brilliant orange pollen at maturity. Pistil consisting of 5-lobed stigma, short style (up to 8 mm long) and 5-merous ovary. Fruit a schizocarp, consisting of 5 mericarps, approximately 45 mm long, each with 1 seed.