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PELARGONIUM NOTES
Erect to semi-decumbent subshrubs with herbaceous, rarely subsucculent stems. Leaves simple, reniform, ovate or cordate, margins lobed, dentate, crenate or crenulate. Inflorescence is a pseudoumbel. Petals white, pink, mauve, purple to black, posterior two marked. Hypanthium 2-6x longer than sepals, base thickened. Fertile stamens 7. Basic chromosome number, x = 8. Further characters, on which the species are separated into a section are pollen morphology and phenolic composition. See Pl. Syst. Evol. 183 (1992) 83-97 for details.

abrotanifolium (L.f.) Jacq.
africanum (Cav.) Steud. syn. odoratissimum (L.) L'Herit.
album J. J. A. van der Walt
artemisifolium DC. syn. 
abrotanifolium (L.f.) Jacq.
burchellii Knuth syn. dichondrifolium DC.
canescens Sweet syn. 
abrotanifolium (L.f.) Jacq.
cradockense Knuth syn. dichondrifolium DC.
dichondrifolium DC.
exstipulatum (Cav.) L'Herit.
incisum (Andr.) Willd. syn. 
abrotanifolium (L.f.) Jacq.
ionidiflorum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Steud.
middletonianum Knuth syn. dichondrifolium DC.
monsonifolium Fisch. syn. 
abrotanifolium (L.f.) Jacq.
odoratissimum (L.) L'Herit.
odoriferum Sweet syn. 
odoratissimum (L.) L'Herit.
odorum Salisb. syn. 
odoratissimum (L.) L'Herit.
pallidum Salisb. syn. 
exstipulatum (Cav.) L'Herit.
reliquifolium N. E. Br. syn. dichondrifolium DC.
reniforme (Andr.) Curt.
retusum Wendl. syn. reniforme (Andr.) Curt.
sidaefolium (Thunb.) Knuth syn. 
sidoides
DC.
sidoides DC.



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