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Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.

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Jacq.
Jacq.
1794
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Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
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Pelargonium tomentosum

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tomentosum

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Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.

Subshrub to c. 75 cm tall, smelling strongly of peppermint. Stems, lvs and infl. with ± velvety white tomentum, and glandular scales beneath hairs. Petiole to c. 30 cm long. Stipules ovate-acuminate, brown and membranous. Lamina to 12 × 15 cm, broadly obovate, rather shallowly 3-lobed with each lobe usually lobulate, serrate-dentate and extending 1/4-1/2 way to midrib; base usually shallowly cordate, sometimes deeply so. Infl. of several umbels, each with 5-8 fls; hairs dense, mostly long and simple but some short and glandular; peduncles often = petioles; pedicels 2-3.5 cm long, generally radiating widely in umbels of 6-8 fls. Sepals 5.5-6.5 mm long, ± triangular-ovate, green, with copious long white hairs; calyx spur c. 2 mm long. Corolla white or pinkish; upper 2 petals 7-8.5 mm long, ± oblong, usually with asymmetric base, crimson-purple-marked in lower 1/2; lower 3 petals 8-10.5 mm long, linear or ligulate. Style crimson or purplish, c. 4 mm long; stigmas crimson or purplish. Mericarps not seen.

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Pelargonium ribifolium sensu New Zealand Botanists
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.

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Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
New Zealand
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Pelargonium tomentosum Jacq.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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6625fe52-63d9-41d5-b0ff-42612fce92d1
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1 January 2000
19 August 2015
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