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 leucanthum Boiss.

Erect, caespitose perennial, 8-20 cm, dioecious; tap root thick, branching; the whole plant covered in short glandular grey-white hairs.

Leaves: Basal leaves densely 2-3-pinnatisect, blade oblong, 2-5 cm, with intercalary leaflets, glandular and hairy; radicle leaves petiolate, stem leaves sessile; laciniae numerous, linear-filiform, 0,2-0,6 mm broad, patently glandular-pubescent or rarely canescent.

Erodium leucanthum; Denizli-Babadağ; photo credit: Riyat Gul; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Inflorescence: Flowering stems glandular-pubescent or sometimes crisply pubescent, bearing 1-3 long peduncles, with umbels of 2-5 flowers. Sepals 5-6 mm, in flower, glandular-pubescent, often with longer eglandular hairs; awn 0,5-1 mm. Petals white, obovate, 1 ½ -2 x sepals.

Fruit: Beak 7cm, glandulose hairy; carpels adpressed villose.

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Distribution: endemic to Turkey; in limestone scree and cliff crevices, at an altitude 1600-2300 m.; Mt Cadmus at 2000m; above Gheyra

Erodium leucanthum; photo credit: Yasemin Konuralp; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)