Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-653.15.10
Pelargonium graveolens
Names: Pelargos is Greek for stork.
English: Rose geranium.
Source: Aromatherapy.
Taxonomy
Pelargonium graveolens belongs to the subgenus Pelargonium pelargonium.
Botany
Erect to decumbent, non-aromatic to aromatic, non-viscid or viscid subshrubs or shrubs with rather woody stems. Leaves simple, laminae entire to variously palmately or pinnately incised. Inflorescences: flowering branches with smaller and normal foliar leaves or smaller foliar leaves only, pseudo-umbels with 1-20 flowers each. Flowers white, pink, pinkish-purple or purple, posterior petals with dark purple, wine-red or dark red feather-like markings, fertile stamens 7 (4 long, 1 medium, 2 short). See Bothalia 15 (1985) 345-385 for details.
Members of subgenus Pelargonium pelargonium
acerifolium L'Her. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Her. ssp. strigifolium Volschenk
alneum Hoffmgg. syn. cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
alpinum Eckl. & Zeyh.
alutaceum Hoffmgg. syn. scabrum (Burm. f.) L'Herit.
agulatum Link syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Herit.
angulosum (Mill.) L'Her. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Herit.
angulosum (Mill.) L'Her. var. acerifolium (L'Her.) Harv. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Herit. ssp. strigifolium Volschenk
balsameum Jacq. syn. scabrum (Burm. f.) L'Herit.
betulaefolium Salisb. syn. betulinum (L.) L'Herit.
betulaefolium Schrank syn. cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
betulinum (L.) L'Herit.
capitatum (L.) L'Herit.
cephalicum Hoffmgg. syn. scabrum (Burm. f.) L'Herit.
citronellum J. J. A. van der Walt
clavatum L'Herit.
concavifolium Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Her. ssp. strigifolium Volschenk
concavifolium Wendl. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Her. ssp. strigifolium Volschenk
cordatum L'Her. syn. cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
corymbosum Turcz. syn. tomentosum Jacq.
crassifolium Hoffmgg. syn. crispum (Berg.) L'Herit.
crispum (Berg.) L'Herit.
cucullatum (L.) L'Herit.
crataegifolium (Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. scabrum (Burm. f.) L'Herit.
denticulatum Jacq.
dregeanum Turcz. syn. cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
englerianum Knuth
erectum Knuth syn. glutinosum (Jacq.) L'Herit.
formosum Balb. syn. scabrum (Burm. f.) L'Herit.
georgense Knuth syn. betulinum (L.) L'Herit.
glutinosum (Jacq.) L'Herit.
graveolens L'Herit.
greytonense J. J. A. van der Walt
hermanniifolium (Berg.) Jacq.
hispidum (L.f.) Willd.
intermedium Knuth nom. inval.
hirtum (Burm. f.) Jacq.
karooense Knuth syn. quercifolium (L.f.) L'Herit.
lanatum (Thunb.) DC. syn. cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
marlothii Knuth syn. alpinum Eckl. & Zeyh.
micranthum Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. tomentosum Jacq.
multifidum Salisb. syn. radens H. E. Moore
panduriforme Eckl. & Zeyh.
papilionaceum (L.) L'Herit.
penicillatum Willd. syn. betulinum (L.) L'Herit.
piperatum Spin syn. tomentosum Jacq.
piperitum F. G. Dietr. syn. tomentosum Jacq.
plicatum Hoffmgg. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Her. ssp. strigifolium Volschenk
populifolium Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. ribifolium Jacq.
pseudoglutinosum Knuth
quercifolium L'Herit. syn. panduriforme Eckl. & Zeyh.
quercifolium (L. f.) L'Herit.
radens H. E. Moore
radula L'Hérit. syn. radens H. E. Moore
raduloides Hoffmgg. syn. radens H. E. Moore
revolutum Jacq. syn. radens H. E. Moore
ribifolium Jacq.
robustum Knuth syn. papilionaceum (L.) L'Herit.
roseum Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. radens H. E. Moore
rubrocinctum Link syn. cordifolium (Cav.) Curt.
scabroide Knuth
scabrum (Burm. f.) L'Herit.
speciosum Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. cucullatum (L.) L'Her. ssp. strigifolium Volschenk
strictum Dietr. syn. crispum (Berg.) L'Herit.
sublignosum Knuth
terebinthinaceum Spreng. syn. graveolens L'Herit.
terebinthinaceum (Cav.) Small syn. graveolens L'Herit.
therebinthinaceum Murr. syn. panduriforme Eckl. & Zeyh.
therebinthinaceum Cav. syn. graveolens L'Herit.
tomentosum Jacq.
tomentosum Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. papilionaceum (L.) L'Herit.
trilobatum Eckl. & Zeyh. syn. ribifolium Jacq.
uniondalense Knuth (1930) syn. pseudoglutinosum Knuth
viscosissimum Sweet syn. glutinosum (Jacq.) L'Herit.
viscosum (Scop.) Spreng. syn. glutinosum (Jacq.) L'Herit.
viscosum Harv. syn. glutinosum (Jacq.) L'Herit.
vitifolium (L.) L'Herit.
