Erodium aguilellae

Leaves: almost all basal, oval-lanceolate, pinnatisect; lamina 4-16 cm long and 1-3cm wide, loosely or densely covered with glands, glandular hairs and eglandular hairs; leaflets 13-21, linear-lanceolate, 0.3-1.3cm long, bipinnatisect, petiolate or not, subacute; petiole 4-13 cm; stipules 4.7-10.5 mm, lanceolate, membranaceous at the margin, glabrous or with small gland on the abaxial face, brownish.

Erodium aguilellae; Spain: Photo credit: Dyoke van Assum; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Inflorescence: with many glandular hairs and few long eglandular hairs. Umbels 7-12(-15) flowered; peduncles 10-32 cm long, rising directly from the rosette; bracts 6-11, 2.5-5.5 mm ovate, free, acuminate, glabrous or glandulose on the abaxial face, and strongly scariose, green; pedicels 2.5-4cm, with patent glandular hairs; sepals 6.5-8 mm long, mucronate, 3-5 nerved, with scarious and ciliate margins, lower face loosely glandulous and eglandulose-pubescent; petals unequal, lilac or pink, rarely white; upper to 11mm long, blotched and strongly veined (rarely a simple spot at base), claw to 2.5mm long; lower petals lanceolate, to 14mm long, without blotch and lightly veined, claw short; nectaries green-yellow; staminodes lilac, glabrous, shorter than stamens; stamen filaments lilac; anthers purple; pollen yellow-orange; stigmas purple. Flowers May-June and September to October.

Erodium aguilellae; Spain: Photo credit: Dyoke van Assum; from the IGG Facebook Group, Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Fruit: Fruit 41-50 mm, eglandular-pilose; mericarps 7-8mm long, light brown; foveoles glandular and without a furrow beneath. 2n=20

Distribution: on scrub and grasslands on calcareous stony soils, sometimes on rocks, at 100-800 m; native to Spain, Castillon, Onda, Sierra de las Pedrisses