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Pelargonium myrrhifolium

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Name

Identification
Pelargonium myrrhifolium (L.) L'Hér. [family GERANIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for PELARGONIUM myrrhifolium Ait. [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 myrrhifolium Ait. [family GERANIACEAE], Kew. 1. vol. 2. p. 421
Information
suffruticose at base or quite herbaceous, slender, diffuse, variously pubescent; branches angular; leaves ovate-oblong, more or less deeply pinnatifid or bi-pinnatifid, the segments glabrous or pubescent, or villous, linear or cuneate, flat or somewhat channelled, deeply cut or again pinnatifid; stipules broadly ovate, acuminate; peduncles 2–6-flowered; calyx-tube setulose, segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, strongly ribbed; upper petals much longer and broader than the lower. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common round Capetown and throughout the western districts; several of the vars. often growing together. Var. α. Zwarteberg, Cal., and Gauritz River, George, E. & Z.! Zonderende, Zeyher!
Notes
I have no hesitation in bringing together, under a single species, the forms here enumerated, and should not have retained several of them, even as varieties, had they not, by most botanists, been kept up as species. The greater the number of specimens examined, the less possible will it be found to fix limits between the forms.

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