Erodium munbyanum

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.

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

Notes: makes fertile hybrids with E. nervulosum