Pelargonium myrrhifolium var. myrrhifolium flowers

    Pelargonium myrrhifolium var. myrrhifolium flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: MC Botha

    These white Pelargonium myrrhifolium var. myrrhifolium flowers have dark purple markings on the lower parts of their upper petals, as well as fainter and paler longitudinal, purple bands on the smaller, lower petals. The flower tubes below the petals curve slightly.

    The narrow, acutely pointed sepals are hairy and have purple and green lines on their pale surfaces, converging to the outcurving sepal tips. The sepals are green on the inside. Hair-like mucros grow on the sepal tips. There is a nectar-bearing tube, a hollow spur in the upper sepal joined with the top of the pedicel.

    Bracts are visible below the calyces, shorter and browner than the sepals. A faint image of a twice divided green leaf is present in the background (Manning, 2009; iNaturalist).

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