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 touchyanum Del.

Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Cicutaria, Subsection Cicutaria

Annual; very hairy herb, 6-13(-37) cm high.

Leaves: Leaves pinnate with bipinnatisect leaflets, no intercalary leaflets.

Inflorescence: umbels, on a leafy flowering stem, with 1-8 flowers, scented of musk; sepals densely glandular pubescent, mucro turns purple in fruit: petals pink, usually all have ± hexagonal violet spots, but principally the upper 2; staminodes both hairy and ciliate; stamen filaments hairy, and with 2 teeth at the base; pollen orange.

Fruit: Beak 3.5-4.5cm; mericarp with a very large infra-foveolar furrow, both furrow and foveole with subsessile glands; awn yellow with long fibres at the base in small tufts; cotyledons pinnatisect. 2n=20 Guitt.

Distribution: normally in the clay and stony lands typical of the coastal plains, on the lower slopes of mountains from Canary Islands to Iraq.

Erodium touchyanum: Morocco; 12/3/2010: Photo credit: Fouad Msanda;  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium touchyanum: Morocco; 12/3/2010: Photo credit: Fouad Msanda;  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium touchyanum: Morocco; 12/3/2010: Photo credit: Jean-Paul Peltier; licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Erodium touchyanum: Morocco; 12/3/2010: Photo credit: Fouad Msanda;  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).