The flowering-genus, which California macrophylla was formerly placed in, includes more species than Cymbidium.
Erodium is a genus of flowering plants in the botanical family Geraniaceae. 
 The genus includes about 60 species, native to North Africa, Indomalaya, The Middle East, and Australia. 
Cymbidium , or boat orchid, is a genus of 52 evergreen species in the orchid family Orchidaceae. 
 It was formerly placed in the genus "Erodium", but was later placed in a monotypic genus of its own named California. 
