Erodium jahandiezianum

Inflorescence: Annual flowering stems leafy with reduced leaves, extending to 30cm, multi-umbellate; sepals 5mm, mucro1-1.5mm; flowers violet blue-mauve, not blotched, equi-petaled, 3cm across, petals falling by noon.

Fruit: Beak is 7-9cm, not smaller, including seed of 8mm; awn is not feathery. 2n=20 Guitt.

Leaves linear-pinnatifid, (the lamina is continuous as a narrow strip along the leaf veins, and the leaf has an odour like cedar) or pinnate with no intercalary leaflets, glandulose-viscous.

Distribution: endemic to Moroccan anti-atlas, among siliceous rocks. Siliceous dry rocks near Igherm at 1500-1800m.