Pelargonium sidoides

Name: Pelargonium sidoides; Pelargonium sidaefolium.
Name: Umckaloabo.
Afrikaans: Kalwerbossie.TaxonomyPelargonium sidoides is in the Subgenus Pelargonium reniformia.BotanyReniformia are 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.
Content: phenolic composition.Species in the Subgenus Pelargonium ReniformiaPelargonium abrotanifolium
Pelargonium africanum
Pelargonium album
Pelargonium artemisifolium
Pelargonium burchellii
Pelargonium canescens
Pelargonium cradockense
Pelargonium dichondrifolium
Pelargonium exstipulatum
Pelargonium incisum
Pelargonium ionidiflorum
Pelargonium middletonianum
Pelargonium dichondrifolium
Pelargonium monsonifolium
Pelargonium odoratissimum
Pelargonium odoriferum
Pelargonium odorum
Pelargonium pallidum
Pelargonium reliquifolium
Pelargonium reniforme
Pelargonium retusum
Pelargonium sidaefolium
Pelargonium sidoidesLiteraturePl. Syst. Evol. 183 (1992) 83-97.