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 dimorphum Wendelbo

Perennial, dioecious; stems tufted; plant covered in persistent stipules & leaf bases; root rhizomatous.

Leaves: Leaves silvery green, dissected, hairy, leathery; intercalary leaflets – only 1 or 2 lobules below one of the pinnae of the second pair!

Inflorescence: male plants with long-peduncled many-bracted umbels of 5-6 flowers with small sepals 4-5mm; the female plants either reduced to a 1-flowered umbel with 2 bracts on a peduncle up to 40mm , or the bracts absent so the flowers appear single axillary basal, with sepals 7mm long; petals white, upper two barely marked rounded broad; sepals hairy on the outside only, not to small mucronate, ovate, acute.

Distribution: endemic to Iran; Eastern Elburz mountains, crevices of cliffs of the Nezva Kuh at 3300m.

Notes: El-Oqlah says very like E. salmonium in leaf shape and dissection, but differs in hairiness and in the stem and peduncles morphology