Erodium salmoneum

Leaves: basal leaves green, very numerous, pinnatisect; lamina outline oblong, 3-6 x 1.5-3cm, covered in appressed long eglandular hairs and short dense glandular hairs; pinnae 2-4 jugate, lower pinnules truly distinct, outline broad elliptic, from the middle with 2-3 cuneate lobes or teeth obtuse; rachis between pinnae narrowly or obtusely lobulate; petiole 0.5-1.5 x lamina; stipules ovate lanceolate, glanduliferous, membranous, pale brown, 2-5mm long.

Inflorescence: Flowering stems decumbent, diffuse, spreading and branching densely glandular hairy or glandulose pubescent, 5-30cm long (peduncles included); peduncles and pedicels densely glandulose pilose; peduncles 2-10 on each stem, spreading, 2-5cm long; umbels of 2-7 flowers, many bracted; bracts ovate, acute, glandulose pilose, 2mm long; pedicels 5-20mm; sepals ovate-oblong, clearly 3-5 nerved, 5.5-8mm long (mucro1-1.5mm included), in fruit 10mm; petals deep salmon, without markings, nearly equal, as long as sepals, narrow obovate, apex truncate or nearly emarginate, at base rather puberulent; in male 5.5-7 x 3-4mm, in female 5x2mm, obovate oblong; stamen filaments orange-pink; anthers purple-pink; pollen orange; stigmas purple-pink.

Fruit: Beak 4-5cm, narrowing to apex, entirely densely and adpressed pubescent, below often glandular; carpels 8-9mm; foveole obscurely glandular, no furrow.

Distribution: endemic to Turkey – Camurlu to Olucak & Ak Dag above tree-line in limestone, cracks and screes; Davis: Turkey, Isaurian Taurus, Anti-Taurus. Prov. İçel, Niğde, Antalya

Remarks: close to E. cedrorum, E. micropetalum but differs from both by pinnules fewer at base of lamina, less deeply dissect; upper pinnules short, narrow; glandulose pubescence; petals narrower, salmon/shrimp pink

Erodium salmonium; leaves; 1540 M. Alanya / AntalyaPhoto credit: Ahmet Tıraş; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Erodium salmonium; male flower; 1540 M. Alanya / AntalyaPhoto credit: Ahmet Tıraş; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Erodium salmonium; female flower; 1540 M. Alanya / AntalyaPhoto credit: Ahmet Tıraş; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)