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Jenkinsonia dichotoma

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Identification
Jenkinsonia dichotoma Eckl.&Zeyh. [family GERANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Jenkinsonia dichotoma Eckl.&Zeyh. [family GERANIACEAE ] Verified by Vorster, P., 1980 Pelargonium crithmifolium Sm. [family GERANIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pelargonium crithmifolium Sm. [family GERANIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Jenkinsonia dichotoma
  • Pelargonium crithmifolium

Flora

Entry for PELARGONIUM crithmifolium Sm. [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
PELARGONIUM crithmifolium Sm. [family GERANIACEAE], Ic. pict. 1. t. 13;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 655. Sw. Ger. t. 354.
PELARGONIUM paniculatum Jacq. [family GERANIACEAE], Schoenb. t. 137.
PELARGONIUM laxum Sw. [family GERANIACEAE], Ger. t. 196, non E. & Z. Drege, 7479?
PELARGONIUM dasyphyllum E. Mey. [family GERANIACEAE], !
Jenkinsonia dichotoma E. & Z. [family ], ! 543.
Information
stem succulent, the branches swollen at the nodes; leaves on longish petioles, sub-bipinnati-partite, fleshy, glabrous or pubescent, the segments narrow-linear, semiterete, channelled, inciso-pinnatifid; stipules minute, cordate; flowering branches naked, dichotomous and divaricate, downy; umbels 4–6-flowered, with oblong, obtuse, small bracts; pedicels downy or glabrescent; longer than the calyx-tube, calyx-segments linear-oblong, obtuse. A very straggling plant with panicled inflorescence and more fleshy, narrower and more divided foliage than in others of this section. P. dasyphyllum, E. Mey.! from Silverfontein, looks like a starved state, with simpler leaves and short cuneate and trifid leaf-lobes.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA North-west districts. Between Kaussie and Silverfontein, Drege! Bitterfontein, Zeyher! Louisfontein, Clanw., E. & Z.! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)

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