Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Geranieae is a member of the Subfamily Asteroideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Geranieae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Geranianae
(Dumortier, 1829) Takhtajan, 1997
- Order: Geraniales
Dumortier, 1829
- Family: Geraniaceae
(jer-ay-nee-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Asteroideae
- Tribe: Geranieae
- Subfamily: Asteroideae
- Family: Geraniaceae
(jer-ay-nee-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Order: Geraniales
Dumortier, 1829
- Superorder: Geranianae
(Dumortier, 1829) Takhtajan, 1997
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Geranieae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (4): Erodium · Geranium · Monsonia · Pelargonium
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10,716 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Geranieae.
Genera
Erodium
Erodium is a genus of the botanical family Geraniaceae. The genus includes about 60 species, for the most part originating in the Mediterranean or Western Asian regions. American species are known as filarees or heron's bill, Eurasian ones are usually called storksbills. [more]
Geranium
Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. The flowers have 5 petals and are colored white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining. Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semi-ripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring. [more]
Monsonia
Pelargonium
Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants which includes about 200 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly known as scented geraniums or storksbills. Confusingly, Geranium is the correct botanical name of a separate genus of related plants often called Cranesbills. Both Geranium and Pelargonium are genera in the Family Geraniaceae. Linnaeus originally included all the species in one genus, Geranium, but they were later separated into two genera by Charles L?H?ritier in 1789. Gardeners sometimes refer to the members of Genus Pelargonium as "pelargoniums" in order to avoid the confusion, but the older common name "geranium" is still in regular use, and most garden 'geraniums' are in fact 'pelargoniums', as opposed to true geraniums or cranesbill. [more]
At least 7,575 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Pelargonium.
More info about the Genus Pelargonium may be found here.
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