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Pelargonium glechomoides

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Identification
Pelargonium glechomoides A.Rich. [family GERANIACEAE ] Pelargonium hararense Engl. ex R.Knuth [family GERANIACEAE ] Verified by Kokwaro, J.O., Pelargonium hararense Engl. ex R.Knuth [family GERANIACEAE ] Verified by Vorster, P., Pelargonium multibracteatum Hochst. [family GERANIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pelargonium multibracteatum
  • Pelargonium hararense
  • Pelargonium glechomoides
  • Pelargonium erlangerianum

Flora

Entry for PELARGONIUM glechomoides A. Rich. [family GERANIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PELARGONIUM glechomoides A. Rich. [family GERANIACEAE], (1847).
Information
Perennial herb; stems prostrate or ascending, up to 50 cm long. Leaves scattered or in basal rosettes; blade suborbicular-reniform, 1–5.5 x 2–9 cm, shallowly 5–7-lobed with crenate-dentate lobes, pilose to pubescent; petiole 1–15.5 cm long. Umbels 2–8-flowered; peduncle 2–10 cm long; free part of pedicel 5–15 mm long. Sepals 4–9 mm long; spur 5–18 mm long. Petals 4, 7–15 mm long, the lower pair broader, pink or white with reddish veins. Style 6–8 mm long. Fruit pubescent; mericarps 4–5.2 mm long; mature beak to 20 mm long.
Range
N1, 2
Altitude range
1500–1740 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/72/136; Bally 11925; Gillett 4569.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Notes
Berdid (Som.).

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