Pelargonium trifoliolatum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) E.M.Marais

A geophyte 170-250 mm tall when in flower. Tuber a turnip-shaped root, 12-35 mm long and 10-35 mm in diameter. Leaves: lamina pinnate, 50-170 mm long, pinnae ovate, acute, 6-15 x 3.5-6.5 mm, terminal pinna more or less the same size as the other pinnae adaxially and abaxially hirsute with appressed hairs interspersed with short glandular hairs; petiole 50-150 mm long and 1-2 mm in diameter, indumentum as on pinnae; stipules 13-33 mm long and 1-2 mm wide, abaxially hirsute. Inflorescence: scape 20-150 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-5 pseudo-umbellets with (3-)5-14(-20) flowers each; peduncles 50-160 mm long, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, densely hirsute with distally appressed curly hairs interspersed with long soft patent hairs and glandular hairs; bracts narrowly triangular, 3.5-6 mm long, 2 mm wide, abaxially densely hirsute with distally appressed hairs. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long. Hypanthium 10-15(-25) mm long, densely covered with appressed curly hairs and glandular hairs. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acute, 6-9.5 mm long, 1.2-3 mm wide, patent during anthesis, abaxially densely covered with appressed hairs and glandular hairs. Petals 5, cream-coloured, yellow or pink, claws orientated close together forming a floral sheath of 8-12 mm long; posterior two ligulate to narrowly obovate, curved laterally, with a prominent wine-red blotch on the curve, bases cuneate, apices rounded, margins undulate, laterally recurved during anthesis, 14-21 x 2.5-6.5 mm, claws 8-12 mm long; anterior three spathulate, bases attenuate, apices rounded, 13-20 x 2-6 mm. Stamens concealed in floral sheath, staminal column 1-2.5 mm long, white; perfect stamens 5, posterior one 1.5-3 mm long, lateral two 2.2-5 mm long, anterior two 6-9.5 mm long, white; staminodes 2-3.5 mm long; anthers pale pink, 1-2 mm long, pollen yellow. Gynoecium: ovary 2.2-5.5 mm long; style 1-3 mm long, pink; stigma branches 0.5-1.5 mm long, pink. Fruit: bases of mericarps 3.5-4 mm long, tails 17-24 mm long.