Erodium telavivense

Leaves: Leaves to 10cm, ovate, almost entire, deeply lobed, often with a pair of free leaflets at base, lobes and leaflets irregularly toothed, sharper toothed and broader laminules than E. gruinum.

Inflorescence: Umbels of 2-6 flowers, bracts lanceolate, acute, whitish; sepals 15-20mm, usually with a few eglandular hairs; sepal mucro 4mm; petals 20-25 mm, fugacious (petals drop by noon), lilac.

Fruit: is large; rostrum 8-12cm; mericarps 12-15 mm; foveoles deep, ciliate bristly at the sides, 1 or 2 furrows below. 2n=36 Zohary (1972)

Distribution: endemic to Israel, at Tel Aviv; hills of chalky sandstone; locally common in grassy places and dwarf scrub; Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain.

Notes: close to E. gruinum, but with long hairs on the seed-foveole and the foveole-furrows.