Erodium

and California

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Erodium

Classification

Species

Clade I, Subclade 1

Subgenus Erodium

 - Section Erodium

 - Section Oxyrynchia

 - stephanianum group

Clade I, Subclade 2

Subgenus Barbata

 - Section  Absinthoidea

Clade II, Subclade 3

 - cygnorum group

Clade II, Subclade 4

 - botrys group

 - Section Cicutaria,

   - Subsection Cicutaria

   - Subsection Acaulia

 - Section Malacoidea

   - Subsection Reichardia

   - Subsection Malacoidea

 - Section Foetida

California

Literature and References

Notes

Erodium litvinovi Woron.

Annual

Leaves: Basal leaves 2-3cm long, petiole 5cm; stem leaves 1-2cm, petiole 2-3cm. leaf entire, few toothed, some are slightly 3-lobed.

Inflorescence: Flower lavender blue?; sepals small, 4mm in flower, 7mm in fruit, mucro 1mm; flowers April-June.

Fruit: Beak 14cm of which carpel 4mm; awn feathers of one type, fine light brown, no bristles mixed, no bristles at spiral, central rachis bare; foveole present, bare, slight furrow beneath foveole, shallow area, abscission layer and collar above; bristles on carpel anchored in tiny swollen bases in all these desert species and these bases go black in herbaria. 2n=?; geranium type pollen.

Distribution: endemic to Asia; Iran, Afghanistan, central Asia. There are several sand lakes and high plateau areas between the Turkey mountain mass and the Himalayan mountain mass. May reach Iraq. Fl USSR adds Fine earth and stony slopes, foothills often gypsiferous.