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Geranium texanum (Trel.) A. Heller
GERANIACEAE
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Information from the Index of California Plant Names (ICPN)
Initial Editorial Analysis 22 Mar 2002.
Notes on Authorship of Name both = Authors of Plant Names
Source of Report for California  
a 8 Feb 2002 e-mail from Margriet Wetherwax: Geranium texanum (Trel.) A. Heller in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25:198 (1898). Recognized as occurring in California by Flora North America author - See Aedo, C. 2000 Anales jard. Bot. Madrid 58(1):39-82. Marin Co., Howell s.n. Olema 38°40'N, 122°47'W, 7 Jun 1936. (NY) Per Aedo: "Its presence in California (not previously reported) probably constitutes an occasional introduction."
b Hrusa et al., Madrono 49(2)61-98. 2002: DIST: CCo: Hrusa et al. Current Status: No current information: DOC: Marin Co.: Aedo (2000); Olema. June 7, 1936, Howell s.n. (NY): NOTES: This species, another relative of G. carolinianum L., otherwise occurs in east Texas and Louisiana (and the Azores). According to Aedo (2000), "Its presence in California (not previously recorded) probably constitutes a[n] occasional introduction".
Initial Editorial Comments Source indicates that, citing Carlos Aedo (00), Flora North America author, the presence of Geranium texanum "...in California (not previously reported) probably constitutes an occasional introduction."; indicated no nearer to California than TX in Kartesz & Meacham. [Whether or not the occasional introductions include naturalization evidently not addressed. In lieu of consideration by The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1] author, a Current Status of tentative 2 is appropriate (22 Mar 2002).]; according to Source b, status uncertain (19 Feb 2003)
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 22 Mar 2006, from Editor of this Index see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 According to Margriet Wetherwax, Howell collected Geranium texanum in Olema in 1936, and did not mention this species when he wrote the Marin Co. Flora in 1949; also, RSA247822, under this species in SMASCH, was collected by R. F. Thorne in 1973 from the Mojave Desert, but this actually belongs to Erodium texanum and was entered into the database as Geranium texanum by mistake.
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary rejection, not naturalized in CA, a waif
Current Status JFP-3, accepted name for taxon occurring in CA only as a waif and/or garden escape, not naturalized
Current Status Authority Thomas J. Rosatti, as Editor, ICPN, Jepson Flora Project
Current Status Date 22 Mar 2002.
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Geranium
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Geranium

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