Pelargonium pseudoglutinosum

Pelargonium pseudoglutinosum is a branched shrub with light green, deeply lobed leaves that have uneven, sometimes acute teeth along the margins.

As the name suggests, this plant resembles P. glutinosum, but characteristically bears only single or paired flowers per inflorescence. Like several other species of Pelargonium, the flower has two pink or very pale pink posterior petals with dark markings and three anterior ones without the purplish lines.

This plant is found in nature in a limited area in the Little Karoo east of De Rust and west of Uniondale.

The habitat is moist valleys where the plants grow in shade. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century. 

The plant was once called P. uniondalense (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; www.tropicos.org; www.redlist.sanbi.org).