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Pelargonium mossambicense Engl. [family GERANIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Pelargonium mossambicense Engl. [family GERANIACEAE], Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 225 (1895). — Knuth in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 129: 406 (1912). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 1: 712 (1915). — Martineau, Rhod. Wild Fl.: 41, t. 13 fig. 3 (1954). Type: Mozambique, Gorungosa, Carvalho (B, holotype †; COI).
Information
Decumbent perennial herb, scented; stems up to 1 m. long, with very short lateral branches in one of the axils of apparently opposite leaves, often reddish, older parts woody; internodes (1) 4–7 (16) cm.; vegetative parts, peduncles and pedicels glandular and pubescent; hairs patent, or ± appressed on the leaves; glands often short-stalked. Leaf-lamina 1·5–6 × 2–7 cm., very broadly ovate to depressed-ovate, base cordate, 3–5-palmatifid or -lobed; segments with 2–3 shallow obtuse to subacute lobes with crenate margin; petiole 1–7 (16) cm. long; stipules 4–11 × 3–7 mm., lanceolate to ovate, acute to acuminate, sometimes bifid, membranous. Inflorescence a terminal pseudumbel of 2–5 flowers; peduncle 1–6 (12) cm. long, leaf-opposed or in the axil of the smaller of two apparently opposite leaves; bracts 5–8, 4–6 × 1–2 mm., lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acute, membranous; free part of pedicel 6–17 (35) mm. long. Spur 6–11 (15) mm. long. Sepals 6–7 × 1–4 mm., lorate to oblong, acute to apiculate, pubescent and glandular. Petals 5, white to pink with purple veins, 7–11 (15) × 3–4 mm.; 2 posterior ones symmetrically to asymmetrically spathulate; 3 anterior ones narrowly obovate to obovate, unguiculate. Stamens with fertile filaments 7, 3–5 (6) mm. long, sterile filaments (staminodes) 3, 1–2 mm. long, all 10 connate at the base for 0·5–1·5 mm.; anthers 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 mm. Ovary with basal part tomentose; rostrum pubescent; style 1–3 mm. long; stigma 1–1·5 mm. long. Mature fruits not seen.
Habitat
Among rocks in grassland or along forest edges
Range
So far only known from the mountainous parts of the eastern districts of S. Rhodesia and by the type collection from Mozambique.
Altitude range
1800–2400 m.
2400
1800
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorungosa, fl. 1884–85, Carvalho (COI).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Banti Forest, fl. 4.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 192 (BM; LISC; SRGH).
Notes
On the rocky slopes of the Inyangani west face at an altitude of 2400 m, specimens have been collected (Goodier & Phipps 66) which are of very stunted growth (10 cm. in height, internodes 1 cm. long), but apart from this they agree with all the characters of P.mossambicense. Knuth (tom. cit.: 407) states that the type in Berlin was only a side branch, which suggests that it was probably part of the specimen in the Coimbra herbarium.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Pelargonium mossambicense Engl. [family GERANIACEAE], Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 225 (1895). — Knuth in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 129: 406 (1912). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 1: 712 (1915). — Martineau, Rhod. Wild Fl.: 41, t. 13 fig. 3 (1954). Type: Mozambique, Gorungosa, Carvalho (B, holotype †; COI).
Information
Decumbent perennial herb, scented; stems up to 1 m. long, with very short lateral branches in one of the axils of apparently opposite leaves, often reddish, older parts woody; internodes (1) 4–7 (16) cm.; vegetative parts, peduncles and pedicels glandular and pubescent; hairs patent, or ± appressed on the leaves; glands often short-stalked. Leaf-lamina 1·5–6 × 2–7 cm., very broadly ovate to depressed-ovate, base cordate, 3–5-palmatifid or -lobed; segments with 2–3 shallow obtuse to subacute lobes with crenate margin; petiole 1–7 (16) cm. long; stipules 4–11 × 3–7 mm., lanceolate to ovate, acute to acuminate, sometimes bifid, membranous. Inflorescence a terminal pseudumbel of 2–5 flowers; peduncle 1–6 (12) cm. long, leaf-opposed or in the axil of the smaller of two apparently opposite leaves; bracts 5–8, 4–6 × 1–2 mm., lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acute, membranous; free part of pedicel 6–17 (35) mm. long. Spur 6–11 (15) mm. long. Sepals 6–7 × 1–4 mm., lorate to oblong, acute to apiculate, pubescent and glandular. Petals 5, white to pink with purple veins, 7–11 (15) × 3–4 mm.; 2 posterior ones symmetrically to asymmetrically spathulate; 3 anterior ones narrowly obovate to obovate, unguiculate. Stamens with fertile filaments 7, 3–5 (6) mm. long, sterile filaments (staminodes) 3, 1–2 mm. long, all 10 connate at the base for 0·5–1·5 mm.; anthers 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 mm. Ovary with basal part tomentose; rostrum pubescent; style 1–3 mm. long; stigma 1–1·5 mm. long. Mature fruits not seen.
Habitat
Among rocks in grassland or along forest edges
Range
So far only known from the mountainous parts of the eastern districts of S. Rhodesia and by the type collection from Mozambique.
Altitude range
1800–2400 m.
2400
1800
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorungosa, fl. 1884–85, Carvalho (COI).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Banti Forest, fl. 4.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 192 (BM; LISC; SRGH).
Notes
On the rocky slopes of the Inyangani west face at an altitude of 2400 m, specimens have been collected (Goodier & Phipps 66) which are of very stunted growth (10 cm. in height, internodes 1 cm. long), but apart from this they agree with all the characters of P.mossambicense. Knuth (tom. cit.: 407) states that the type in Berlin was only a side branch, which suggests that it was probably part of the specimen in the Coimbra herbarium.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Pelargonium mossambicense Engl. [family GERANIACEAE], Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 225 (1895). — Knuth in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 129: 406 (1912). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 1: 712 (1915). — Martineau, Rhod. Wild Fl.: 41, t. 13 fig. 3 (1954). Type: Mozambique, Gorungosa, Carvalho (B, holotype †; COI).
Information
Decumbent perennial herb, scented; stems up to 1 m. long, with very short lateral branches in one of the axils of apparently opposite leaves, often reddish, older parts woody; internodes (1) 4–7 (16) cm.; vegetative parts, peduncles and pedicels glandular and pubescent; hairs patent, or ± appressed on the leaves; glands often short-stalked. Leaf-lamina 1·5–6 × 2–7 cm., very broadly ovate to depressed-ovate, base cordate, 3–5-palmatifid or -lobed; segments with 2–3 shallow obtuse to subacute lobes with crenate margin; petiole 1–7 (16) cm. long; stipules 4–11 × 3–7 mm., lanceolate to ovate, acute to acuminate, sometimes bifid, membranous. Inflorescence a terminal pseudumbel of 2–5 flowers; peduncle 1–6 (12) cm. long, leaf-opposed or in the axil of the smaller of two apparently opposite leaves; bracts 5–8, 4–6 × 1–2 mm., lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acute, membranous; free part of pedicel 6–17 (35) mm. long. Spur 6–11 (15) mm. long. Sepals 6–7 × 1–4 mm., lorate to oblong, acute to apiculate, pubescent and glandular. Petals 5, white to pink with purple veins, 7–11 (15) × 3–4 mm.; 2 posterior ones symmetrically to asymmetrically spathulate; 3 anterior ones narrowly obovate to obovate, unguiculate. Stamens with fertile filaments 7, 3–5 (6) mm. long, sterile filaments (staminodes) 3, 1–2 mm. long, all 10 connate at the base for 0·5–1·5 mm.; anthers 1–1·5 × 0·8–1 mm. Ovary with basal part tomentose; rostrum pubescent; style 1–3 mm. long; stigma 1–1·5 mm. long. Mature fruits not seen.
Habitat
Among rocks in grassland or along forest edges
Range
So far only known from the mountainous parts of the eastern districts of S. Rhodesia and by the type collection from Mozambique.
Altitude range
1800–2400 m.
2400
1800
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorungosa, fl. 1884–85, Carvalho (COI).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Banti Forest, fl. 4.ii.1955, E.M. & W. 192 (BM; LISC; SRGH).
Notes
On the rocky slopes of the Inyangani west face at an altitude of 2400 m, specimens have been collected (Goodier & Phipps 66) which are of very stunted growth (10 cm. in height, internodes 1 cm. long), but apart from this they agree with all the characters of P.mossambicense. Knuth (tom. cit.: 407) states that the type in Berlin was only a side branch, which suggests that it was probably part of the specimen in the Coimbra herbarium.
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