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

California

Literature and References

Notes

Erodium asplenioides (Desf.) Willd.

Stemless perennial or with stems tuft forming and rough with old leaf bracts, root thick,  fusiform.

Leaves: Basal leaves more or less entire, upper leaves pinnatisect, without intercalary leaflets, lobes cut-toothed at their ends; petioles hairy; stipules radical, large, scariose, red-brown, ovate, obtuse.

Inflorescence 5 or more flowered, bracts 4-5, ovate, scarious, red-brownish. Sepals are pubescent, elliptic, nerved, muticous. Petals large,

equal, rounded, overlapping, 5-nerved, pink, with some basal marks. Mericarp: foveole glandular, no furrow. Beaks 30-40mm. 2n=20

Distribution: endemic to N. Africa – Tunisia & E. Algeria in chalky gullies at 1000-1200m