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Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Willd.
Willd.
1860
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Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.
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Pelargonium ×asperum

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×asperum

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Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.

Soft-wooded subshrub up to c. 75 cm tall, strongly aromatic, densely hairy. Stems with hairs deflexed. Stipules c. 1 cm long, ovate, acuminate. Petioles of lower lvs to > 8 cm long. Lamina to c. 7 × 10 cm on flowering plants, ± triangular, deeply divided into 3 lobes; lobes toothed and sinuate, rough above; 2 side lobes to c. 2 cm across, each with a secondary lobe near base; terminal lobe to c. 2.5 cm across, with a pair of secondary lobes. Umbels c. 10-flowered, densely covered in glandular hairs; peduncles 2-6 cm long; pedicels 1-6 mm long. Sepals 8-12 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate, green, densely hairy; calyx spur c. 3 mm long. Corolla pink; upper 2 petals 1-1.6 × 0.5-0.8 cm, with ± prominent purple markings and white central patch, and claw well developed; lower 3 petals 0.9-1.4 × 0.25-0.5 cm, with purple median line in lower 1/2, and claw not well differentiated. Style and stigmas becoming rose. Mericarps not seen.

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Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.
Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.
Pelargonium ×asperum Willd.

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1 January 2000
27 June 2022
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