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to opposite, stipulate; venation from pinnate to palmate, so leaf shape 
from ovate to pinnatifid to pinnatipartite to sub-palmatifid to 
palmatipartite to compound palmate. Inflorescence either a diche- 
sial or scorpoid cyme. Flowers regular pentamerous ( Geranium ) 
to irregular pentamerous (. Pelargonium ); sepals five, aposepalous; 
petals five, apopetalous, varying in color from greenish-white or 
pink-red to scarlet, scarlet-crimson to crimson-purple; stamens with 
anthers ten or five, hypogynous or inserted into slightly developed 
hypogynous disc; pistil pentacarpellary, ovary five-celled with two, 
rarely one ovule in each cell, styles elongate, fused round a stylar 
