Erodium adenophorum Blatter
Annual, about 70mm high. Root vertical, thin and long, simple. Stems few.
Leaves: Basal leaves few, persistent; petiole 1 to 1.5 times leaf-blade, hirsute with soft glandular hairs; lamina outline ovate or oblong, subcordate, about 25 mm long, 8-11 mm broad, sparsely hairy on both sides, margin white-ciliate, irregularly lobed, pinnatifid, lobules somewhat acutely serrate-dentate; upper leaves similarly lobed on shorter petioles. Stipules membranaceous, whitish, 3×1 mm, broad lanceolate-acute or spathulate or oblong or ovate, apex obtuse, margin ciliate.
Infloresence: Peduncles up to 36 mm, densely puberulent-glandulose with 2-3 flowers; bracts 2-3, broad triangular, acute, ciliate margin, free, 1-1.5mm long; pedicels 5mm long, bent back in fruit; sepals 5 x 2mm, unequal, with 3 or 5 raised nerves, densely glandulose-hirsute; mucro 1 mm; petals pink.
Fruit: rostrum 3 cm long, white hairy not glandulose
Distribution: endemic to Asia – Pakistan, n. Waziristan at Khari Post in bed of Sna Algad on gravel/sand.
This is one of 3 species in northern Pakistan described by E. Blatter. Said to be close to E. hoefftianum
