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Geranium incanum

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Identification
Geranium incanum Burm.f. [family GERANIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Geranium incanum

Flora

Entry for GERANIUM incanum Linn. [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 incanum Linn. [family GERANIACEAE], Sp. p. 957;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 640. Burm. Ger. t. 1. Cav. Diss. t. 82. f. 1. E. & Z.! 445. Thunb. Cap. p. 511. Zey. 160. Drege, 7510.
Information
suffruticose at base, diffuse, slender, appressedly silky; leaves digitately 5–7- parted, the segments cut into many linear lobes, pubescent on the upper, canescent on the lower surface; peduncles 2-flowered; sepals canescent; petals entire. Bases of the decumbent branches woody. All parts are covered with short, close-pressed, silky hairs, but the upper sides of the leaves are green. The sepals are either aristate, mucronate, or simply acute. The flowers, 1/2 inch across, are white or a purplish-rosy.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Flats; hills at the Eastern side of Table Mountain, and elsewhere in the Western districts, frequent. A variety with red flowers, at Van Staadensberg, Uit., E & Z.! Mohlamba Range, Natal, Dr. Sutherland! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.).
Notes
This is the “ Berg-thee ” of the colonists.

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