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Issue: Vol. 440 No. 1: 21 April 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-04-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.440.1.6
Page range: 87–88
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 3

Nomenclatural clarification of the names Pelargonium althaeoides and P. chamaedrifolium (Geraniaceae)

Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections Division, Pretoria National Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria 0001, South Africa Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa.
Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections Division, Pretoria National Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria 0001, South Africa Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Geraniaceae Geraniologia International Code of Nomenclature for algae fungi and plants L'Héritier Pelargonium priority

Abstract

While revising the southern African species of Pelargonium L’Hér. in Aiton (1789a: 417) sect. Peristera De Candolle (1824: 654) (Le Roux 2019), it was found that two names are in circulation for a single species. This matter was not addressed in the revision by Le Roux (2019) as P. althaeoides (Linnaeus 1753: 679) L’Hér. in Aiton (1789a: 420) was moved from Pelargonium sect. Peristera [subgen. Parvulipetalum Röschenbl. & F.Albers in Röschenbleck et al. (2014: 57)] to section Campylia (Lindl. ex Sweet 1820: pl. 43) De Candolle (1824: 656) (subgen. Pelargonium) in a molecular study by Röschenbleck et al. (2014). The matter therefore requires clarification.