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Pelargonium abrotanifolium

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Identification
Pelargonium abrotanifolium Not on sheet. [family GERANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Pelargonium abrotanifolium
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  • Pelargonium artemisiifolium

Flora

Entry for PELARGONIUM abrotanifolium Jacq. [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 abrotanifolium Jacq. [family GERANIACEAE], Schoenb. t. 136.;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 661. Cav. Diss. t. 117. f. 1. Sw. Ger. t. 351.
PELARGONIUM artemisiæfolium E. Mey. [family GERANIACEAE], non DC.
Information
shrubby, slender, much branched, velvetty-canescent; leaves pulverulent, flabelliform, tripartite, the lateral segments deeply 2–3- lobed, the terminal multifid, with linear, channelled, blunt lobes; stipules tooth-like, adnate, obsolete; peduncles filiform, few-flowered; bracts minute, ovate; calyx-tube much longer than the pedicels, or the hairy segments; upper petals broader and shorter than the lower. A slender, strongly aromatic, canescent shrub, with leaves like those of “Southern Wood” (Artemisia Abrotanum). It chiefly differs from P. incisum in the petals and pubescence, and from P. exstipulatum in the multifid leaves. Flowers white, the two upper petals with a red spot, or rosy.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA North-western districts and Namaqualand. Nieuweveld, near Rhinoster-kopf, Kenko, Nieuwe Hantam, &c., Drege! Africa's Hoogte, Burke and Zeyher! Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber! Cultivated since 1796 in England. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)
Notes
Cavanille's figure is very bad.

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