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Pelargonium sp.

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Identification
Pelargonium sp. L'Hér. [family GERANIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, null Verified by Data not digitized,
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Flora

Entry for Monsonia biflora DC. [family GERANIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 130, (1963) Author: T. Müller
Names
Monsonia biflora DC. [family GERANIACEAE], Prodr. 1: 638 (1824). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 193 (1926). TAB 21. Type from S. Africa.
Monsonia burkeana Planch. ex. Harv. [family GERANIACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 255 (1860). — Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. IV, 129: 299 (1912). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 1: 705 (1915). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 385 (1916). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 193 (1926). — R. A. Dyer in Fl. Pl. S. Afr. 20: t. 794 (1940). — Exell & Mendonça C.F.A. 1, 2: 258 (1951). — Martineau, Rhod. Wild Fl.: 41, t. 13 fig. 1 (1954). Type from S. Africa.
Monsonia malviflora Schinz [family GERANIACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., Sér. 2, 3: 821 (1903). Type from SW. Africa,
Monsonia glandulosissima Schinz [family GERANIACEAE], tom. cit.: 822 (1903). Type from SW. Africa.
Monsonia sp. [family GERANIACEAE], — Eyles, loc. cit. quoad specim. Eyles 1193 et Rand 95.
Pelargonium sp. [family GERANIACEAE], — Eyles, loc. cit. quoad specim. Gardner 64.
Information
Erect perennial herb or suffrutex, up to 60 cm. tall, often with annual shoots arising from a woody basal region; stems branching freely; internodes 1–3 (4·5) cm. long; vegetative parts, peduncles, pedicels and sepals ± densely pubescent, covered with short recurved or patent and then often gland-tipped hairs, sometimes scattered very much longer patent hairs also present especially on the stem and calyx. Leaf-lamina 1·5–4 × 0·2–1 cm., lorate to narrowly oblong or very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, obtuse to subacute at the apex, margin irregularly serrate, base cuneate; petiole 5–10 (14) mm. long; stipules 3–6 (10) mm. long, acicular to subulate. Inflorescence a pseudumbel of 1–3 flowers; peduncle (1·5) 2·5–4·5 (7·5) cm. long, leaf-opposed or in the axil of the smaller of two apparently opposite leaves; pedicel 1·8–3·4 (4) cm. long; bracts 1–4, 3–8 mm. long, linear. Sepals 9–11 × 2·5–4 mm., narrowly oblong to lanceolate with an acicular apical appendage 1–2 mm. long. Petals 18–24 × 8–14 mm., yellowish-white to pale blue, sometimes pink to mauve, veins darker, obovate, apex truncate. Extrastaminal glands ovate with a ligulate apical appendage. Filaments 8–11·5 mm. long, pubescent; anthers 2–2·5 × 1–1·4 mm. Ovary tomentose; stigmas (2) 2·5–3·6 mm. long, filiform. Fruit 6–8 (9) cm. long; cocci 12·5–14 × 2·3–2·6 mm. Seed 5·1–5·3 × 2–2·4 mm., pale brown, minutely reticulate.
Habitat
Grassland
Altitude range
1340–2000 m.
2000
1340
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga, fl. & fr. 31.xii.1942, Hopkins in G.H.S. 9519 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Salisbury, south of Darwendale near railway line, fl. 18.ix.1955, Boughey 225 (LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matobo, Farm Besna Kobila, fl. & fr. ii.1954, Miller 2185 (LISC; K; SRGH).Botswana SE Gaberones, fl. & fr. 15.iii.1930, van Son in Herb. Transv. Mus. 28847 (BM; K; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
N. Cape Prov.
SW. Africa
Angola

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