Erodium birandianum

A dioecious perennial with lax rosettes of leaves. Its stems are sparsely branched, prostrate or ascending, glandular pubescent, and with sessile glands.

Leaves: basal leaves are ovate to oblong, bipinnatifid, densely glandular and sparsely pilose, 13-14cm long, 2-2.5 times long as wide. Segments are deeply pinnatfid into lanceolate-ovate lobes.

Inflorescence: Sepals 4-4.5 mm long in flower, densely glandular-pubescent, sometimes reflexed;

ending in a short awn 0.3-0.5 mm long. Petals obovate, 1.5-2 times as long as sepals, white or pale lilac. Beak of the fruit 3-3.5 (-4) cm long.

Distribution: Found on subalpine limestone rocks at 1900m at Devrekani, Yaraligoz Mountain, Kastamonu Province, Turkey.

Erodium birandianum was first described in 1994. It is very close to Erodium armenum.