Erodium mouretii

Erodium

and California

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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

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Notes

Erodium mouretii Pit.

Perennial caulescent herb, 20-80 cm, roots woody, branched; stems erect or spreading, with patent glandular hair and some eglandular hairs, and a few glands.

Leaves: leaves oblong lanceolate, pinnatisect, with ± patent eglandular hairs, and some glandular, especially on the nerves of the underside; segments 5-13, incised- dentate to pinnatifid, with acute teeth; basal leaves with lamina 4-18cm, petiole 2-9 cm; stipules 7-20 mm, ovate, scariose, whitish.

Inflorescence: umbels lateral, of (6-)8-12 flowers; bracts 6-14, 3-8.5mm, free or joined in groups welded in groups to almost the apex, glabrous, ciliate, brownish or whitish, sometimes with a scarious margin; pedicels with glands and glandular hairs; sepals 4.5-9.5 mm, with long glandular hairs; mucro 0.4-0.7 mm; petals 12-14.5mm, pink or whitish, usually all marked, the upper two petals somewhat darker, with a larger dark, almost black blotch covering c. ½ the petal; nectaries brownish to almost black; staminodes pink; stamen filaments white-pink; anthers purple; stigmas purple

Fruit: fruit 37-55mm; mericarps 6-7.5mm; foveole with glands and a large glandular furrow. 2n=20 Guitt.

Distribution: endemic to Morocco and southern Spain, in quartz or otherwise siliceous rocks

Notes: it forms fertile hybrids with both E. sebaceum and E. tordylioides, and also annual E. touchyanum. very like E. tordylioides but it grows leafy annual stems 5-20cm long.

Erodium mouretii Pitard; Cracks of siliceous rocks, El Hajeb, 900 m (Middle Atlas); 27/04/2017; Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali: licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium mouretii Pitard; Cracks of siliceous rocks, El Hajeb, 900 m (Middle Atlas) 27/04/2017; Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali: licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium mouretii Pitard; Igherm, 1785 m, (Anti-Atlas) 06/10/2018; Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali: licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).