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 munbyanum Boiss.

Perennial herb; plants hispid, little or not glandular stems to 20cm, about 8mm thick; roots not tuberous.

Leaves: basal leaves entire, glabrous, triangular, round toothed to ± 3 lobed, lamina  to 7cm, petioles to 18cm; upper leaves pinnatisect; stipules large, ovate, usually 15 x 6mm, membranous, brown.

Inflorescence: annual flowering stems hairy or glandulose; umbels of 5-7 flowers; bracts obtuse, soldered in 2 plates, glabrous, scarious; sepals 3-7 nerved; mucro more than 2mm; flowers about 2cm across, petals are pink, unequal, do not touch and are narrowly obovate and ciliate at the base, the 2 upper are smaller and have 2 faint dots; pollen red-orange.

Fruit: Beak 5-7cm; mericarp 6-7mm; foveoles little or not glandular, without furrow beneath. 2n=20 Guitt.

Basal leaves of Erodium munbyanum at Manorfield, Ashford, Kent, UK; 01/07/1998

Erodium munbyanum at Manorfield, Ashford, Kent, UK; 29/05/2005

Distribution of Erodium munbyanum

Distribution: endemic to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia in coastal sand dunes.

Notes: makes fertile hybrids with E. nervulosum