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 glandulosum,  Llo, Pyrénées orientales, France. Photo credit: Roger Culos, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Erodium glandulosum (Cav.)Willd.

Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Foetida; glandulosum series.

Perennial, 5-20cm, sub-acaulescent.

Leaves bipinnatisect, with intercalary leaflets, green, glabrescent or slightly hairy, leaflets in the plane of the lamina, stipules 3-8.5mm, lancoelate adnate on less than one third of the length.

Inflorescence: Umbel of 4-8 flowers; bracts 4-8, 5-9mm, lanceolate, whitish; sepals 6-8mm, mucro 0.9-1.9mm; Petals 8.7-15.3 mm; lower petals three narrower and not overlapping pink; the upper two petals violet and strongly blotched, nectaries spherical and unequal, taller than wide.

Fruit: Fruit 32-50 mm; mericarps 6-8.5 mm with suborbicular glandular foveoles, densly ciliate on the outer edge, with no furrow; c6 tight turns to the spiral; cotyledons entire; 2n=20

Distribution:  endemic to Spain, France, in the Pyrenees Mountains, to central Spain.

Notes: differs from E. cheilanthifolium in green rather than silver leaves, cotyledons of E. cheilanthifolium are notched.