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.

Erodium jahandiezianum in cultivation at Manorfield, Ashford, Kent, UK; 01/06/1996

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.

Erodium jahandiezianum - Photo credit : Fouad Msanda, licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium jahandiezianum, showing sepals - Photo credit : Fouad Msanda, licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium jahandiezianum - Photo credit : Fouad Msanda, licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

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