Pelargonium sp. 1

Tufted perennial to c. 15 cm high; stems, peduncles and pedicels subvelutinous with short glandular hairs and usually scattered longer eglandular hairs; rhizomes fleshy, extensively branched, forming colonies to several metres wide. Leaves all or mostly basal; cauline leaves, if present, opposite, lamina ovate, 1–2.5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, often truncate at base, entire to shallowly 5–7-lobed, minutely glandular pubescent with short, coarse eglandular hairs along veins and near margin, margin crenate; petioles c. 2–6 cm long. Umbels (1–)3-flowered; peduncles 1–4 cm long; pedicels 10–20 mm long; sepals narrow-elliptic, 4.5–5.5 mm long, acute, subvelutinous, glandular, sometimes with scattered longer hairs; sepal spur 1–1.5 mm long; petals obovate, 8–11 mm long, bright pink with purple veins; fertile stamens 6 or 7. Fruits 10–15 mm long; mericarps pilose.  Flowers Nov.–Jan.