Erodium antariense

Erodium

and California

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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

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Notes

Erodium antariense Rouy

Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Foetida; glandulosum series.

Perennial with a long tap root, subcaulescent.

Leaves: lamina ovate to triangular ovate, bi- or tri-pinnatisect, with intercalary leaflets, upper and lower surfaces silvery, with dense adpressed silver eglandular hairs; principal segments 5-11; tertiary lobes usually longer than wide; leaflets in one plane, lobules ovate, ± obtuse.

Inflorescence: umbels of up to 7 flowers directly from the base; flowers a little irregular; bracts greenish white, narrowly membranaceous; mucro very short; petals unequal, of one colour, white, the superior 2 petals strongly blotched with purple, with veins within the blotch, covering ½ or more of the petal, overlapping, lower 3 narrower, not overlapping and unmarked; nectaries olive-green, spherical; staminodes glabrous, pink, stamen filaments glabrous, pink; anthers pink or purple.

Fruit: mericarps 5-6.6 mm, foveole large suborbicular, with stalked glands, no furrows.

Distribution: Morocco and Algeria

Erodium antariense; Tizi-n-Talghemt, high eastern Atlas, 1902 m; 23.05.2019; Photo credit : Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali; licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).