Database Details : Geranium Taxonomic Information System

Full name: Geranium Taxonomic Information System
Short name: RJB Geranium
Version: Jul 2012
Release date: 2012-07-18
Authors/editors: Aedo C.
Taxonomic coverage: Plantae - Tracheophyta - Magnoliopsida - Geraniales - Geraniaceae - Geranium
English name of the group: Cranesbills, geraniums
Number of living species 344
Number of living infraspecific taxa 23
Number of extinct species: 0
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 0
Number of synonyms: 1,566
Number of common names: 0
Total number of names: 1,933
Abstract: This is a database of Geranium names and synonymic checklist of the genus which is a part of a project to prepare a worldwide monograph of cranesbills. It is partly financed by the Spanish Government through the research projects REN2003-00982/GLO, CGL2004-00172/BOS and CGL2007-60184/BOS.
Organization: Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Website: http://www.rjb.csic.es/Geranium
Bibliographic citation: Aedo C. (2017). RJB Geranium: Geranium Taxonomic Information System (version Jul 2012). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.