Entry for PELARGONIUM radicatum Vent. [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 radicatumVent. [family GERANIACEAE], Malm. t. 65;—DC. l. c. p. 650. Sw. Ger. t. 174.
GERANIUM ciliatumAndr. [family GERANIACEAE], Rep. t. 247.
Information
leaves oblongo-lanceolate or sub-elliptical acute, very entire, nearly glabrous, ciliated, on ciliate petioles; stipules adnate, subulate; umbel simple, many-flowered; pedicels much shorter than the softly pubescent calyx tube, which is four times as long as the lanceolate segments; petals spathulate, retuse (pale yellow); stamens five. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Introduced to England from the Cape, about 1802.
