Pelargonium album
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Pelargonium album belongs to the genus Pelargonium within the family of geraniaceae (Geraniaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The species grows as a semi-succulent, semi-prostrate to upright, aromatic subshrub with fleshy roots. It can reach heights of up to 40 centimeters. The crowded and rosetted leaves are sticky and toothed on the edge. The heart-shaped blade consists of 5 to 7 hand-shaped incised lobes. The petiole is furrowed on top.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is branched into partial inflorescences and these each carry 4 to 9, sometimes up to 15, individual flowers. The flower cup is colored green. The green sepals have white margins. The top two of the five petals are wrongly lanceolate to spatulate, bent back by 90 ° at the tip, close together and sometimes with feather-like, red markings. The lower three petals are inverted lanceolate to inverted egg-shaped, narrowly nailed and basally bent back by 60 °. There are seven fertile stamens in three different lengths.
Chromosome number
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
Occurrence
Pelargonium album comes from the South African province of Mpumalanga .
Taxonomy
The species was first described in 1990 by Johannes Jacobus Adriaan van der Walt .
The species belongs to the Reniformia Knuth section . It is rated as "Rare" in the Red List of Endangered Plant Species in South Africa.
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literature
- F. Albers: Pelargonium album . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Sukkulentenlexikon Volume 2 Dicotyledonous plants (dicotyledons) with the exception of Aizoaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Cactaceae and Crassulaceae . Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , p. 263.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pelargonium album at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ LL Dreyer, JJA van der Walt: A new species of Pelargonium from the eastern Transvaal . In: South African Journal of Botany . Volume 56, 1990, p. 65.
- ↑ Pelargonium album , In: National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2013.1 .