Entry for PELARGONIUM pulchellum Curt. [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 pulchellumCurt. [family GERANIACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 524;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 665. Sw. Ger. t. 31.
PELARGONIUM pictumAndr. [family GERANIACEAE], Rep. t. 168? DC. Prod. l. c.
Information
stem short and succulent; leaves on short, hairy petioles, oblong, silky, inciso-pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, acute; stipules broadly ear-shaped, acute, adnate, rigid, veiny, silky; scapes branched, pilose, with many-flowered umbels and lanceolate, silky bracts; outer flowers pedicellate, inner sub-sessile, the calyx-tube many times longer than the lanceolate, hairy sepals. Stem scarcely branched, sometimes obsolete. Stipules remarkably broad and stiff, like those of P. appendiculatum. The petals are white, each with a large, deep red spot.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cultivated in Europe, 1695. Kaus Mountain, Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. Benth., Jacq.)
