Geranium prolificum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 949. 1763.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 4958.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Commelin, Hort. Med. Amstelod. Pl. Rar. 2: 125, t. 63. 1701.

Current name: Pelargonium rapaceum (L.) L’Hér . ( Geraniaceae).

Note: This has been considered to be an illegitimate renaming of G. rapaceum L. (1759) by some (e.g. Wijnands, Bot. Commelins: 109. 1983), although the phrase names are not particularly similar.