Erodium olympicum Boiss. ex Clementi
Clade I; Subclade 2; Subgenus Barbata ; Section Absinthoidea
This is a perennial species from 1 mountain in Western Türkiye.
Leaves: It has lax rosettes of greenish pinnatisect leaves 4.5 – 7.5cm long, with intercalary lobes. Leaflets pinnatifid, lobules not further toothed or cut, distinguishing it from many of the Absinthoidea group, sparsely glandular, and with ± adpressed eglandular hairs.
Inflorescence: Flowering stem 7-12cm , unbranched, ± densely glandular, with short and long eglandular hairs bearing 1 or 2 peduncles. Sepals are 5-6mm with a mucro 0.5-0.8mm, not reflexing. Petals are white, 8-10mm, long broadly ovate Beak is stout, 4-4.5cm, carpel 7-9mm, with a glandular foveole. Flowers in August.
Distribution: Found in crevices on limestone cliffs at about 2300m on Uludag, Bursa Province, Türkiye.
Erodium olympicum is like E. sibthorpianum (which also grows on Uludag) but does not have a caespitose habit, does not form dense wide hummocks, has green basal glandular leaves and a densely glandular stem.
First published in Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, 16: 263 (1857 publ. 1855)
