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Geranium caffrum

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Identification
Geranium caffrum Eckl. & Zeyh. [family GERANIACEAE ] Geranium caffrum Eckl. & Zeyh. [family GERANIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Geranium caffrum
  • Geranium nyassense
  • Geranium dregei
  • Geranium incanum

Flora

Entry for GERANIUM caffrum E. & Z. [family GERANIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 254, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
GERANIUM caffrum E. & Z. [family GERANIACEAE], ! 448;—Drege, 7512! Zeyher, 2038!
Information
suffruticose at base, diffuse, slender; branches angular; leaves green on both sides, digitately 3–5-parted, the segments lanceolate, inciso-pinnatifid, the upper surface sparsely and minutely appresso-puberulent, lower glaucous and glabrous, except along the strigilose nerves; the 2-flowered peduncles, calyces and carpels mostly glandular and pubescent; petals emarginate. The least hairy of the Cape species, though far from glabrous. The hairs are very minute, rigid and close-pressed. Flowers white. The glandular hairs vary in copiousness, in different specimens.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Kat River, E & Z.! Zwartkops, Zey.! Zuureberg, Klipplaat River, and near Rhinosterkopf, Nieuweveld, Drege! Albany, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.).

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