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 fumarioides Stev.

Perennial, dioecious herbs, covered in fine grey recurved appressed hairs, eglandular.

Leaves: leaves oblong, pubescent, pinnatisect below up to middle, with intercalary leaflets, pinnatipartite in the upper part, pinnae pinnatifid, lacinae incised, obtuse.

Inflorescence: Umbels on ascending, branching flowering stems, 10-25 cm; sepals 5-6mm, 13mm in fruit, villous, sub-muticous; petals 11-13mm, emarginate, violet, veined; anthers yellow; stigma orange.

Fruit: fruit 30-40mm; mericarp 9mm; foveole without furrow.

Distribution: Northern Caucasus; at 1300-2200m on stony and rocky slopes: Russia; Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, Dagestan.

Notes: Leaves appear not to be typical Absinthioidea but approaching entire in the upper half, more like E. ciconium

Erodium fumarioides: Gunibskiy Rayon, Dagestan, Russia (North Caucasus); Photo credit: Mallaliev, from inaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Erodium fumarioides: Gunibskiy Rayon, Dagestan, Russia (North Caucasus); Photo credit: ramazan_murtazaliev, from inaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Erodium fumarioides: Botlikhskiy Rayon, Dagestan, Russia (North Caucasus); Photo credit: ramazan_murtazaliev, from inaturalist.org; licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)