Pelargonium bowkeri

Pelargonium bowkeri
	Pelargonium bowkeri
Systematics
	Rosids
	Eurosiden II
Order :	Cranesbill (geraniales)
Family :	Cranesbill family (Geraniaceae)
Genre :	Pelargonium ( Pelargonium )
Type :	Pelargonium bowkeri
Scientific name
	Pelargonium bowkeri
	Harv.

Single flowers of Pelargonium bowkeri

Pelargonium bowkeri belonging to the genus Pelargonium within the family of geraniaceae (Geraniaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

The species grows as a geophyte with a large, hard and subterranean tuber and short shoots and is up to 40 centimeters high during flowering. The upright, triple pinnate leaves are felty and light green. The blade is narrowly ovoid in outline and the individual segments are linear and usually less than 1 millimeter wide. The stipules are narrowly triangular in shape.

Generative characteristics

The upright, unbranched inflorescence is usually shorter than the leaves and has 4 to 12 individual flowers. The flower cup is very long and the sepals are suddenly bent back. The five fringed petals are light yellowish green in color. The veins of the upper two petals are lighter purple in color than those of the lower three. There are seven fertile stamens of different lengths . The pollen is yellow to orange in color.

Occurrence

Pelargonium bowkeri comes from the South African provinces of Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal .

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1862 by William Henry Harvey .

The species belongs to the Polyactium DC section . It is rated “Least Concern” in the Red List of Endangered Plant Species in South Africa.

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literature

F. Albers: Pelargonium bowkeri . 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 , pp. 266-267.

Individual evidence

^ WH Harvey: In: Flora capensis: being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal . Volume 2, Kent 1862, p. 592 ( online ).
^ Pelargonium bowkeri , In: National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2013.1 .

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[1] WH Harvey: In: Flora capensis: being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal . Volume 2, Kent 1862, p. 592 ( online ).

[2] Pelargonium bowkeri , In: National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2013.1 .