Pelargonium suburbanum Clifford ex D.A.Boucher

Species

Angiosperms > Geraniales > Geraniaceae > Pelargonium l'hér.

Characteristics

Procumbent, branched subshrub, up to 0.3 m high and 1 m in diameter. Stems herbaceous, bases of older stems somewhat woody, tomentose to villous and with glandular hairs interspersed, green but becoming reddish-brown and eventually greyish with age. Leaves: lamina sparsely pilose to villous and with glandular hairs interspersed, green, oblong-cordiform in outline, pinnatilobate to pinnatisect or bipinnatilobate to bipinnatisect but sometimes trifoliolate with the terminal pinna relatively large, base of lamina cordate, apices of segments obtuse to acute, margins crenate, (15-)40(-80) x (20-)25(-60) mm; petiole indumentum as on stems, (15-)50(-100) mm long; stipules ovate, indumentum as on lamina, relatively large, ±10 x 8 mm. Inflorescence: peduncles (65-)100(-120) mm long, villous to hirsute and with glandular hairs in between; involucral bracts narrowly ovate, indumentum as on peduncles, ±8 x 3 mm; pseudo-umbels with 3-6 flowers each. Pedicel ±1 mm long. Hypanthium 8-45 mm long, sparsely hirsute but with many glandular hairs. Sepals lanceolate, abaxially hirsute and with many glandular hairs, green but prominently raised veins often reddish. Petals 4 or 5, white to yellowish (R.H.S. 11D) or dark pink-purplish (R.H.S. 70B); posterior two asymmetric-obovate with narrow claws, with dark red markings, reflexed at less than 90°, ±20-30 x 9-14 mm; anterior two/three narrowly spathulate, slightly reflexed, ±15-17 x 2-6 mm. Fertile stamens 7(4 long, 1 medium, 2 short), stamina! column ±5 mm long, pollen orange. Mericarps: bases ±6 mm long; tails ±40-50 mm long.
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Procumbent, branched, subshrub, 0.1-0.3 m high; stems herbaceous, bases woody; tomentose to villous with glandular hairs interspersed. Leaves simple, lamina oblong-cordiform in outline, up to 80 x 60 mm, pinnatisect, base cordate, apex of segments obtuse to acute, margins crenate; petioles up to 100 mm long. Stipules ovate. Inflorescences of 3-6-flowered pseudo-umbels; peduncles up to 120 mm long. Petals 4 or 5, dark, pinkish purple; posterior 2 asymmetric-obovate, 10-30 x 9-14 mm, narrowly clawed, markings dark red; anterior petals narrowly spathulate, 15-17 x 2-6 mm. Fertile stamens 7; pollen orange. Flowering time June-Dec.
Sprawling shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves pinnatisect to bipinnatisect, 3-7 cm diam. Flowers to 6 on stout peduncles near branch tips, 30-40 mm diam., cream-coloured to purple, 2 upper petals much wider, subsessile; hypanthium 8-50 mm long.
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 5-6
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Distribution

Pelargonium suburbanum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:940878-1
WFO ID wfo-0001064392
COL ID 75ZD9
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Synonyms

Myrrhidium urbanum Pelargonium suburbanum Pelargonium suburbanum subsp. suburbanum Pelargonium urbanum var. pinnatifidum

Lower taxons

Pelargonium suburbanum subsp. bipinnatifidum