Erodium cedrorum

Habit: A dioecious perennial species growing 8 to 17 cm, with short tufted sometimes branched stems. The whole plant is covered with soft glandular hairs, petioles, peduncles and pedicels are densely covered with short hairs and glands.

Leaves are oblong, 7-10cm x 2-3cm, pinnate with intercalary leaflets. Leaf segment are 1-2 pinnatifid, adpressed greyish hairy, more or less equally spaced. Stipules are brown, ovate-triquetrous or ovate, acuminate and acute, 4-8 x 2-3 mm.

Inflorescence: Flowers are in umbels of 3-7, on 2-8 cm peduncles; bracts several, ovate, glandular hairy, becoming white papery; flowers are 15 mm across, rose-lilac with unequal petals, the 2 upper petals smaller and spotted at base, petals 1-5 x sepals, broadly ovate; sepals are hirsute and long mucronate, mucro 1-2.8mm.

Fruit: Rostrum is 4-6 cm, stout, the mericarp is white hairy.

Distribution: A mountain species found in a small area in the Taurus Mountains, southern Turkey, on rocky limestone slopes, often in slightly shade places at 100 to 2500 m. Found in provinces Adana, Hatay, Icel, Nigde.

Publication details: Schott, in Oesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 4: 201 1854.