Compilation
Pelargonium abyssinicum

Stem somewhat shrubby below, attaining 1–2 ft. or more, thinly pilose or strigillose above, at length glabrous and shining, the older portions irregularly knotty. Leaves membranous, palmatifid or sub-7-fid with broadly oblong or ovate, obtuse or scarcely acute, remotely serrate or crenate-serrate segments, more or less appressed-pilose or hispid-pilose especially beneath, or subsericeous, 2–5 in. diam.; petioles various up to 6 in. Stipules ovate or ovate-elliptical, acute or acuminate, about 1/2 in. long. Peduncles elongate, 6 in. to 1 ft.; umbels 6–10-flowered; bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate. Pedicels 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. Calyx-spur adnate nearly to the base of the pedicel. Petals 5, obovate-spathulate, entire, twice as long as the linear- or oblong-lanceolate apiculate sepals.