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

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Literature and References

Notes

Erodium hakkiaricum P.H.Davis

Clade I; Subclade 2; Subgenus Barbata ; Section Absinthoidea

This is a slender prostrate dioeceous perennial

Leaves with oblong, laxly 2-3-pinnatisect, 2-4cm long. Lacinae are narrowly oblong, adpressed pilose.

Erodium hakkiaricum; Hakkâri Merkez/Hakkari, Türkiye; 20/06/2021; Photo credit Mehmet Çelik; from iNaturalist; Licenced under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0

Inflorescence: flowering stems are glandular-puberulent and pilose, with 2-4 slender peduncles. Flowers are small, sepals are 3-4mm, with a very short mucro, petals are 2x sepals, white. Beak is slender 2.5cm.

Distribution: Found in earthy patches on rocky northern slopes of  Kara Dag at 2900m, in Province Hakkiari, southeastern Türkiye. Appears to be closely related to E. sosnowskianum from neighbouring Armenia and Northern Iraq (Kurdistan)

First published in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22: 65 (1956)