Erodium rupicola

Leaves: Leaves all basal, narrow, long petiolate, outline lanceolate, pinnatisect; limb 5-17 x 1.5-4 cm; leaflets 7-15, usually less than 7x2.25mm, outline ovate, incised-dentate to pinnatifid; lobules oblong; stipules6-11.5 mm, lanceolate.

Inflorescence: Peduncles all basal, hardly longer than the leaves, crisp-hispidulous; umbels of 6-11 flowers; bracts 5-8, 2-5 mm, soldered between a third and a half of their length ovate, membranaceous; sepals 4.5-6.5 x 2-2.8 mm, oblong; papillose-crisp; mucro 0.1-0.4 mm; petals 7.4-11.5 x 4.5-7 mm, pale-rose, slightly inequal, upper 2 slightly smaller, rounder, often black marked between the nerves; nectaries green; staminodes pink and ciliate; stamen filaments pink, broader at the base; anthers purple; pollem orange; stigmas pink to dark purple.

Fruit: fruit 21-35 mm; mericarps 4-6 mm with small eglandular foveoles and with no furrow beneath. 2n=20 Guitt.

Distribution: endemic to Spain (Sa Nevada, Vacares), silicaceous rock-crevices in vertical rock faces at 2000 to2500m.

Erodium rupicola; 1/6/2019;photo credit: Manuelmm; licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license (CC BY-SA).