ligularia
TaxomnomyPelargonium auritum belongs to the Subgenus Pelargonium ligularia (Sweet) Harv.
BotanyPerennials, erect to decumbent or procumbent subshrubs, with branched or much branched, subsucculent stems, usually woody at base, geophytic (one species), often with persistent stipules or petioles. Leaves simple, usually pinnately divided. Petioles usually shorter than laminae. Pedicel short, much shorter than hypanthium. Petals 5, subequal, posterior two slightly bigger. Fertile stamens (4-5) 7. Basic chromosome number, x = 11. Further characters, on which the species are separated into a section are pollen morphology, cpDNA trnL-F sequences, and phenolic composition.
Subgenus Pelargonium lLigulariaappendiculatum (L. f.) Willd.
caucalidifolium Jacq. syn. crassipes Harv.
convolvulifolium Schlechter syn. crassipes Harv.
conradiae J. C. Manning & A. Le Roux
crassipes Harv.
fulgidum (L.) L'Herit.
hirtum (Burm. f.) Jacq.
hystrix Harv.
oreophilum Schlechter
ovatostipulatum Knuth syn. stipulaceum (L.f.) Willd.
pallens (Andr.) Sweet syn. stipulaceum (L.f.) Willd.
pictum (Andr.) Pers. syn. pulchellum Sims
pulchellum Sims
rubromaculatum Poir. syn. pulchellum Sims
sericeum E. Mey. nom. nud. syn. sericifolium J. J. A. van der Walt
sericifolium J. J. A. van der Walt
stipulaceum (L.f.) Willd.
tectum (Thunb.) DC. syn. fulgidum (L.) L'Herit.
tenuifolium (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Steud. syn. hirtum (Burm. f.) Jacq.
torulosum E. M. Marais
villiferum (Thunb.) DC. syn. hirtum (Burm. f.) Jacq.
LiteratureStrlic Matija;The Pelargium page: http://www.pelargonium.si.
See S. Afr. J. Bot. 66 (2000) 31-43 for details.