We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Pelargonium L'Hér. ex Aiton

PELARGONIUM L'Hér., 1787

Fls irregular; sepals 5, uppermost spurred, the spur adnate to pedicel; petals 5, sts aborted, upper pair different from rest. Stamens 10, 5-7 developed, the rest rud. Ovary 5-celled, beaked; styles 5, short; ovules 2 per cell; carpels rolling up elastically to apex of beak. Seeds 1 per carpel. Herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs with us. opp., stipulate lvs. A genus of some 300 spp., mainly of S. Africa.

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top