Pelargonium capitatum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Geraniales
- Family
- Geraniaceae
- Genus
- Pelargonium
- Species
- Pelargonium capitatum
- Scientific Name
- Pelargonium capitatum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pelargonium capitatum
Pelargonium capitatum is one of several species (including Pelargonium graveolens) known as rose geranium or rose-scented pelargonium in English. The popular names refer to the scent of the essential oils extracted from glandular tissue, not the flowers, which have hardly any scent to speak of. Some of the species are known as kusmalva (meaning, roughly, "coastal geranium") in Afrikaans.
It is in the subgenus Pelargonium along with Pelargonium graveolens, Pelargonium tomentosum and Pelargonium crispum.
...Pelargonium capitatum in languages:
- Afrikaans
- kusmalva
- Chinese
- 頭狀天竺葵
- English
- rose-scented geranium
- English
- rose scented geranium
- English
- Common Storksbill
- English
- Rose-scented pelagonium
- English
- coast pelargonium
- English
- Rose-Scented Pelargonium
- English
- Wild Pelargonium
- English
- Coast Storksbill
- French
- Pélargonium à fleurs en tête
- Italian
- Pelargonio capitato
- Russian
- Пеларгония головчатая
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pelargonium betulinum
- Pelargonium capitatum
- Pelargonium citronellum
- Pelargonium cordifolium
- Pelargonium crispum
- Pelargonium cucullatum
- Pelargonium denticulatum
- Pelargonium englerianum
- Pelargonium glutinosum
- Pelargonium graveolens
- Pelargonium greytonense
- Pelargonium hermanniifolium
- Pelargonium hispidum
- Pelargonium panduriforme
- Pelargonium papilionaceum
- Pelargonium pseudoglutinosum
- Pelargonium pseudosetulosum
- Pelargonium quercifolium
- Pelargonium radens
- Pelargonium ribifolium
- Pelargonium scabroide
- Pelargonium scabrum
- Pelargonium sublignosum
- Pelargonium tomentosum
- Pelargonium vitifolium































































































































































