Geranium palmatum

Geranium palmatum
Geranium palmatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Geraniales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Geraniales

Familia: Geraniaceae
Genus: Geranium
Subgenus: G. subg. Robertium
Sectio: G. sect. Anemonifolia
Species:

Name

Geranium palmatum Cav., Diss. 4: 216, t. 84, fig. 2 (1787).

Synonyms

  • Heterotypic
    • Geranium anemonifolium L'Hér., Geraniologia: t. 36 (1792).
      • Robertium anemonifolium (L'Hér.) Picard, Mém. Soc. Agric. Boulogne-Sur-Mer, sér. 2, 1: 134 (1837).
    • Geranium rutilans Ehrh., Beitr. Naturk. Verw. Wiss. 7: 164 (1792).
    • Geranium laevigatum Burm. ex DC., Prodr. 1: 640 (1824), nom. inval.
    • Geranium anemonifolium var. canariense Bolle, Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1861(App.): 11 (1862).
    • Geranium anemonifolium var. grandiflorum Bolle, Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1861(App.): 11 (1862).
    • Geranium anemonifolium var. laevigatum Bolle, Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1861(App.): 11 (1862).
    • Geranium lowii Mottet, Dict. Prat. Hort. 2: 484 (1893–1894).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Africa
    • Regional: Macaronesia
      • Madeira (Madeira).
  • Continental: Northern America
    • Regional: Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California (introduced).

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

  • Cavanilles, A.I. 1787. Quarta dissertatio botanica. de Geranio, 128 species complectens, 49 tabulis incisas. Pp. 195–266, tt. [189]–[194] in Monadelphiae classis dissertationes decem. Apud Franciscum Amb. Didot, Parisiis [Paris]. Online. Reference page. 

Additional references

  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. 2012. Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du Nord. Volume 4: Dicotyledoneae: Fabaceae – Nymphaeaceae. Conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève, ISBN 978-2-8277-0126-1, 431 pp. PDF Reference page. 

Vernacular names

  • English: Madeira geranium
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