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Geraniaceae

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Overview

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A Family in the Kingdom Plantae.

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Taxonomy

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The Family Geraniaceae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Achimenes

Achimenes is a of about 25 species of tropical and subtropical rhizomatous perennial herbs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. They have a multitude of common names such as Magic Flowers, Widow's Tears, Cupid's Bower, or Hot Water Plant. The plant's name comes from the Greek word meaning "suffer from cold." [more]

Amarine

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Araeoandra

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Balbisia

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Balsamina

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Biebersteinia

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Bomarea

Bomarea is one of the two major in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes. Several species are occasionally found as garden plants. [more]

Caccinia

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Caesarea

Caesarea (: ?; Arabic: ????????, Kaysaria) is a town in Israel on the outskirts of Caesarea Maritima, the ancient port city. It is located mid-way between Tel Aviv and Haifa (45 km), on the Israeli Mediterranean coast near the city of Hadera. Modern Caesarea as of December 2007 has a population of 4,500 people, and is the only Israeli locality managed by a private organization, the Caesarea Development Corporation, and also one the most populous localities not recognized as a local council. It lies under the jurisdiction of the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. [more]

California

California () is the state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity, behind only São Paulo, Brazil. It is located on the West Coast of the United States, and is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Its four largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco. The state is home to eight of the nation's fifty largest cities. It is known for its varied climate and geography, as well as its diverse population. [more]

Campylia

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Cassinia

Cassinia is a large of plants in the family Asteraceae, most or all of which are native to the Southern Hemisphere. It was named for French botanist Alexandre de Cassini. [more]

Celmisia

Celmisia is a of perennial herbs or subshrubs, in the family Asteraceae. There are around 70 species; most are endemic to New Zealand, butween four and 10 are endemic to Australia. The genus was first formally described by botanist Alexandre de Cassini in 1813. [more]

Chevreulia

The Clubmoss Cudweed (Chevreulia lycopodioides) is a species of in the Asteraceae family. It is monotypic within the genus Chevreulia. It is found only in Falkland Islands. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and temperate grassland. [more]

Chionohebe

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Chorisma

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Chuquiraga

Chuquiraga is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Chymocarpus

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Ciconium

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Cionura

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Cissarobryon

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Clivia

Clivia is a of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family Amaryllidaceae. Common names include Kaffir lily and bush lily. [more]

Connaropsis

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Corokia

Corokia is a in the Argophyllaceae family comprising about ten species native to New Zealand and one native to Australia. Corokia species are shrubs or small trees with zigzagging branches. In fact, corokia cotoneaster is commonly known as wire-netting bush. The stems of the shrubs are dark when mature, covered with downy or silky hairs (tomentum) when young. In spring, they produce clusters of small, star shaped yellow blossoms. Berries are red or yellow. The shrubs prefer forests and rocky areas, sun or light shade, reasonably well drained soil, and moderate watering. [more]

Cortusina

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Crowea

Crowea is a of small evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae . They are native to Australia, where they occur in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. The genus is named for James Crowe, an English botanist. Croweas have pink star-shaped flowers with five petals. [more]

Cruckshanksia

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Dimacria

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Dirachma

Dirachma is the sole of the family Dirachmaceae. The genus has been monotypic until a second species was recently discovered in Somalia (Dirachma somalensis). [more]

Ematis

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Eremurus

Herbs perennial, with vertical, short, stout rhizome, surrounded at neck by leaf bases and sometimes also fibers from old, disintegrated leaf bases. Roots numerous, long, thickened, fleshy. Leaves several, all basal, tufted, linear. Scape simple, erect, exceeding leaves, with sterile bracts distally and a terminal raceme. Raceme usually densely many flowered, usually elongate in fruit; bracts membranous, margin often minutely serrulate, fimbriate, or ciliate, apex often long filiform acuminate. Flowers bisexual, 1 per bract axil, pedicellate; pedicel articulate or not. Perianth campanulate, tubular, or cupular; segments 6, free or connate at base, with 1, 3, or 5 veins. Stamens 6, often exserted; filaments filiform or dilated toward base; anthers dorsifixed near base, base with 2 lobes to 0.5 mm. Ovary 3-loculed; seeds several per locule. Style filiform, long, often conspicuously persistent in fruit; stigma very small. Fruit a capsule, globose or subglobose, loculicidal. Seeds irregularly 3-angled, sometimes winged along angles.[1] [more]

Erodium

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves lobed or pinnatisect, longer than broad, stipulate. Flowers in cincinnal umbels, rarely solitary or 2. Involucral bracts 2 or more, united or free. Sepals and petals Fertile stamens 5, alternating with 5 staminodes. Ovary 5-lobed, long beaked in fruit. Beak plumose or bristly within on dehiscence. The stylar axis usually spirally twisted below. Mericarps with 2 apical pits.[2] [more]

Eucryphia

Eucryphia is a small genus of or large shrubs of the Antarctic flora, native to the south temperate regions of South America and coastal eastern Australia. Traditionally placed in a family of their own, the Eucryphiaceae, more recent classifications place them in the Cunoniaceae. There are seven species, two in South America and five in Australia, and several named hybrids. They are mostly evergreen though one species (E. glutinosa) is usually deciduous. [more]

Eumorpha

Eumorpha (meaning "well formed") is a genus of in the family Sphingidae. The genus is mostly found in North and South America. [more]

Felicia

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Fortucitroncirus

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Francoa

Francoa is a of the Francoaceae family. It include only the species Francoa sonchifolia, an herb endemic to Chile, commonly known as Bridal Wreath. Plants may grow up to one metre high and produce basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup-shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early fall. [more]

Geraniospermum

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Geranium

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves usually alternate, stipulate, variously divided. Peduncles (1-) 2-flowered. Flowers often showy, regular, usually 5-merous. Petals alternating with 5 nectiferous glands. Stamens (5-) 10, staminodes occasional. Carpels usually 5, adnate, separating septifragally from the central axis at maturity. Ovary 5-lobed. Fruit schizocarpic, of 5 mericarps which remain attached to an elastically coiling stylar axis upwards; mericarps without apical pits.[3] [more]

Grenvillea

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Hemizygia

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Heppimenes

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Heucherella

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Hoarea

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Hrolaelia

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Hyperum

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Hypseocharis

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Isopetalum

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Jenkinsonia

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits (electromagnetic radiation) through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Laser light is usually spatially coherent, which means that the light either is emitted in a narrow, low-divergence beam, or can be converted into one with the help of optical components such as lenses. Typically, lasers are thought of as emitting light with a narrow wavelength spectrum ("monochromatic" light). This is not true of all lasers, however: some emit light with a broad spectrum, while others emit light at multiple distinct wavelengths simultaneously. The coherence of typical laser emission is distinctive. Most other light sources emit incoherent light, which has a phase that varies randomly with time and position. [more]

Ledocarpon

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Ledocarpum

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Leptinella

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Leucocoryne

Leucocoryne () is a genus of bulbous perennials of the family Alliaceae. There are twelve species, all native to Chile. The foliage of all species is long and narrow and has an onion-like scent. The blue, white or lilac flowers are held in umbels. [more]

Leucoraoulia

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Ligularia

Perennials, 15-150+ cm (glabrous or scattered-hairy, especially distally [arachno-tomentose]; roots fibrous). Stems usually 1, erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases dilated, ± sheathing stems) ; blades (basal and proximal largest, cauline smaller distally) palmately [palmati-pinnately] nerved, orbiculate to reniform [elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate], margins dentate [denticulate, serrate, dissected], faces glabrous or sparsely pilosulous (mostly on nerves) [glaucous; arachno-tomentose]. Heads radiate [discoid], in corymbiform [racemiform or spiciform] arrays. Calyculi 0 [1-2+ bractlets]. Involucres cylindric to campanulate, [3-]16-28 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [5-]8-13+ in 1-2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish or reddish, not blackened). Receptacles flat to convex, smooth, epaleate. Ray florets [0 or 1-7] 8-14+, pistillate, fertile; corollas (laminae prominent, showy) orange to orange-yellow or brick-red [yellow]. Disc florets [5-]12-100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange-yellow to orange, becoming brownish [yellow], tubes longer than cylindric throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices truncate or rounded-truncate. Cypselae (stramineous to brownish) ± ellipsoid [cylindric or fusiform], 5[-10]-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous; pappi persistent (fragile), of 40-100+, reddish [sordid, brownish, purplish], barbellate to barbellulate bristles ([shorter than] longer than cypselae). x = 30.[4] [more]

Linostigma

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Lithodora

Lithodora is a genus of in family Boraginaceae. [more]

Macraea

Macraea is a genus of plants in the family . [more]

Martiniera

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Meconopsis

Perennial, often prickly, simple or rarely branched, often tall and robust herbs with yellow latex. Leaves entire or lobed, radical stalked, cauline sessile or subsessile. Inflorescence solitary, racemed, pseudo-racemed or panicled. Flowers often large, showy, blue, yellow or purplish-red. Sepals 2(-4), usually caducous, valvate. Petals 4 (often varying from 5-10), free, obovate to broadly ovate. Stamens many, multiseriate; filament filiform; anthers often oblong. Carpels many, fused, superior, with unilocular, ellipsoid to subglobose ovary; ovules many on parietal placentae projecting into the ovary; style distinct, often short; stigma rays 5-6, radiating and forming a globular mass over the ovary. Capsule ovoid, oblong, clavate or cylindrical, 1-celled, dehiscing by short slits at the apex or sometimes splitting almost to the base of the fruit. Seeds many, small, rugose.[5] [more]

Monsonia

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Moraea

Seasonal perenials. Corms rooting apically with fibrous or woody and unbroken tunics. Leaf bifacial, flat to channelled, or sometimes terete, 1-many. Flowering stems branched, branches few to many, sometimes unbranched, sometimes with 1 long areal internode with inflorescence and leaves crowded at the apex or entirely underground. Flowers long lived or fugaceous; mainly yellow to white; tepals free or united, clawed, unequal to subequal, spreading to reflexed or inner erect. Filaments united, entirely or partly or occasionally free; anthers appressed to style branches. Ovary occasionally beaked; style branches usually broad or flat, wider than the anther, ending in large paired crests; stigma terminal, divided or undivided and extending between the stamens. Capsule globose to obconic or oblong, occasionally beaked. Seeds discoid or angular; testa sometimes spongy.[6] [more]

Myrrhidium

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Myrrhina

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Nematanthus

Nematanthus is a genus of of the family Gesneriaceae. Compared to other gesneriads, Nematanthus has leaves that are small, succulent, and hard-surfaced. The plant has a trailing, branching, and spreading habit; it is generally an epiphyte in nature and a hanging-basket plant in cultivation. [more]

Neopaxia

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Neurophyllodes

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Olopetalum

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Orchis

Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (). This genus gets its name from the Greek ????? orchis, meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids. [more]

Otidia

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Ozothamnus

Ozothamnus is a of plants found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. [more]

Parahebe

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Pecteilis

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Pelargonion

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Pelargonium

Perennial with rarely entire leaves. Flowers showy, umbellate, irregular. Posticous sepal prolonged into a nectiferous spur. Fruit beaked.[7] [more]

Peristera

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Petrocoptis

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Phillyrea

Phillyrea is a small genus of two species of in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, the Canary Islands and Madeira. [more]

Phygelius

Phygelius (E. Mey.ex Benth.), Cape fuchsia, is a of the Scrophulariaceae family. The genus is native to southern Africa. The plants are adapted to surviving severe summer conditions. Phygelius is not related to the Fuchsia genus, in spite of the common name. [more]

Phymatanthus

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Pimelea

Pimelea (often seen spelled Pimelia) is a genus of plants belonging to the family . There are about 80 species in the genus, native to Australia and New Zealand. Many of the species are poisonous to cattle. [more]

Pleioblastus

Pleioblastus is a of monopodial bamboo. Genetic research indicates that this genus may properly be part of the genus Arundinaria. [more]

Pleione

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Polyactium

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Pratia

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Ptilotrichum

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Puya

Puya can refer to: [more]

Rhipsalidopsis

Rhipsalis is a of epiphytic, mostly spineless cacti. They are typically known as mistletoe cacti. The scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek term for wickerwork, referring to the plants' habitus. [more]

Rhodanthe

Rhodanthe is a of flowering plants within the daisy family Asteraceae, endemic to Australia. [more]

Rhynchotheca

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Robertiella

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Rosularia

Herbs perennial, usually hairy. Rootstock usually fleshy. Leaves mostly in dense, basal rosettes, usually with several rosettes per plant, alternate, sessile, flat. Flowering stems often several, arising from axils of rosette leaves (or solitary and arising from center of rosette) ; stem leaves alternate. Inflorescence lateral, cymose-corymbiform, paniculate-corymbiform, or spicate-paniculate, lax to dense. Flowers bisexual, 5-9-merous. Sepals connate at base. Corolla pink or white, sometimes with red or purple markings, campanulate or cupular; lobes partly connate at base, limb erect to spreading, membranous. Stamens 2 × as many as petals, inserted above corolla base, ca. 2 × as long as petals. Nectar scales cuneate to cuneate-spatulate-quadrate. Carpels erect, free, often hairy. Follicles erect, free, many seeded. Seeds striate.[8] [more]

Sarcocaulon

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Sesleria

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Seymouria

Seymouria was a reptile-like from the early Permian of North America and Europe. It was small, only 2 ft (60 cm) long. Seymouria was well adapted to life on land, with many reptilian features--so many, in fact, that it was first thought to be a primitive reptile. [more]

Solidaster

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Tropeolum

Viviania

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Wendtia

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Wn

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At least 7 species and subspecies belong to the Genus wn.

More info about the Genus wn may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. Chen Sing-chi, Nicholas J. Turland "Eremurus". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 159. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  2. Yasin J. Nasir "Erodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 29. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  3. Yasin J Nasir "Geranium". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  4. Theodore M. Barkley "Ligularia". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 540, 542, 613. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  5. "Meconopsis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 22. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  6. S. I. Ali & Brian Mathew "Moraea". in Flora of Pakistan Page 202. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  7. YASIN J. NASIR "Pelargonium". in Flora of Pakistan page 41. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  8. Kunjun Fu, Hideaki Ohba & Michael G. Gilbert "Rosularia". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 217. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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Last Revised: September 22, 2009
2009/09/22 13:09:36