Pelargonium sublignosum R.Knuth

Erect, branched, strongly sweet-scented or non-aromatic shrub, up to 1 m high and 0.5 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous when young, becoming woody with age, sparsely to densely villous interspersed with glandular hairs and often shorter thicker hairs, green but becoming reddish-brown with age. Leaves sparsely hirtellous to villous (long soft hairs predominantly on veins of lamina) interspersed with glandular hairs, green to dull green; lamina cordiform in outline, 3-(5)-lobed, base cordate, apices of lobes obtuse to acute, margins dentate to coarsely dentate and often reddish, (20-)35(-60) x (25-)40(-80) mm; petiole (10-)20(-60) mm long; stipules ovate to cordiform, often apiculate, 5-10 x 3-10 mm. Inflorescence: flowering branches with normal and smaller foliar leaves; peduncles 20-40 mm long, sparsely villous to villous interspersed with glandular hairs and often shorter thicker hairs; involucral bracts lanceolate to cordiform, apiculate, glabrescent but margins with long hairs, 5-6 x 3-4 mm; pseudo-umbels with 3-9 flowers each. Pedicel 4-10 mm long, with glandular hairs, short hairs and sparsely interspersed with long hairs. Hypanthium 5-14 mm long, prominently thickened at base, indumentum as on pedicel. Sepals lanceolate, apiculate, indumentum abaxially as on pedicel, green with white margins, ±9 x 3-1 mm. Petals white, light pink or pink; posterior two spathulate to obovate, with feather-like pinkish-purple markings, reflexed at ±90°, ±18 x 4-7 mm; anterior three narrowly spathulate with short narrow claws, slightly reflexed, ±15 x 2 mm. P. sublignosum flowers from October to February with a peak in November and December. The odd flower is found throughout the year.