Entry for PELARGONIUM hystrix Harv. [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 hystrixHarv. [family GERANIACEAE]
Information
stem fleshy, moniliform or closely knobby, densely armed with persistent spine-like stipules, slightly branched; leaves from the crown, on slender, strigose and glandular petioles, pinnati-partite, with very narrow, strigose, deeply incised or parted segments; stipules rigid, subulate, free; peduncles densely glandular, simple; umbel pluri-flowered, with short subulate bracts; flowers sub-sessile, the glandular calyx-tube 4–5 times longer than the lanceolate, albomarginate segments; petals small. Stem 6–8 inches high, 1/2 inch thick, consisting of a string of round knobs, bristling with rigid spines, formed of hardened stipules. The habit is nearly that of a Sarcocaulon.
