Erodium stellatum

Inflorescence: Flowers pink; petals large, unequal; upper 2 petals twice as long as the sepals, spotted with purple at the base and feathered, suborbicular and abruptly contracted into a short claw, 8.5-9.5mm long x 7-7.5mm wide; staminodes hirsute and ciliate; stamen filaments with 2 teeth at base.

Fruit: Beak 4-6cm; fibers of the mericarp ridge of unequal length; foveole has a narrow furrow beneath; cotyledons trisect. 2n=20 Guitt.

Distribution: endemic to Morocco, on the Moroccan plateau.

Filaments of fertile stamens strongly dilated dentate at the base. Unequal petals, the upper 2 , . .