Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pelargonium graveolens L'Hér. [Geraniaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
attar-of-roses	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
dkioúli	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
esencia de rosa	Other	Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
gerani	Other	Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
geranio	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021)
geranium	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
geranium oil, algerian type	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
gerânio	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jelemen	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jermen	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kioúli	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
malvarosa	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok jerimin	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rosas blancas	Other	Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
rose geranium	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rose geranium oil, algerian type	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
rose pelargonium	Other	Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
rose pelargonum	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rose-scent geranium	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sardineira	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sweet-scented geranium	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
xiāng yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xiāng yè tiān zhú kuí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xiāng ài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yeráni	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
γεράνι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
δκιούλι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
κιούλι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
香叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
香叶天竹葵	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
香叶天竺葵	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
香艾	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Flower		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Leaves		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
Branch		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
leaves		Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
leaf, flower		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
leaf, flower		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
flowers, leaves		Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021)
Leaf		Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaves		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
	essential oil	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Geraniospermum terebintaceum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 94 (1891), nom. superfl.
Geranium asperum Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 2: 759 (1812).
Geranium graveolens (L'Hér.) Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 115 (1794).
Geranium radula Roth Bot. Abh. Beobacht.: 51 (1787), nom. illeg.
Geranium terebinthinaceum Cav. Diss. 4: 250 (1787), nom. illeg.
Hoarea intermixta Sweet Hort. Brit.: 76 (1826).
Pelargonium asperum Ehrh. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 62 (1826), nom. illeg.
Pelargonium intermedium R.Knuth Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 44: 27 (1909), nom. illeg.
Pelargonium terebinthinaceum Small in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 25: 24 (1907).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pelargonium graveolens	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Pelargonium graveolens (L.) L'Hèritier et Arton	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Her	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Her.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Her. ex Aiton	Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Herit.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Hér.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Hér. ex Aiton	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Pelargonium graveolens L'Hér. ex. Aiton	Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
Pelargonium graveolens L'her. Ex Ait.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Pelargonium graveolens L. 'herit	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Pelargonium graveolens L. Herit.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Pelargonium graveolens L.Herit.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Pelargonium graveolens L’ Her	Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
Pelargonium graveolens L’Herit.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pelargonium graveolens L’Hert.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Pelargonium graveolens L’Hér.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
Pelargonium graveolens L’Hér. ex Ait	Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Perlagonium graveolens	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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