Erodium recoderi Auriault et Guittoneau
Annual to biennial herb to 50cm, ascending or decumbent, stout, sticky-hairy with abundant patent glandular hairs.
Leaves large, green, rough, ovate-lanceolate, irregularly pinnate, with glandular hairs and sometimes eglandular hairs; leaflets 5- 7(9) ovate, dentate to pinnatifid, with acute to obtuse teeth; stipules 7-11 mm triangular-ovate, acuminate, ciliate, purplish or sometimes whitish.
Inflorescence: umbels of 5-8(10) flowers, lateral; bracts 4-8, 2-7 mm, ± adnate to 2/3, purplish or whitish; sepals 5-7mm, with 3-5 nerves, with a mucro of 0.5-1.5mm; petals 8-12mm, unequal, pink to purple with a small hairy claw, the upper 2 petals shorter and wider with a dark basal mark; nectaries from a light green to almost blackish; staminodes 3-4.5mm long, glabrous; stamen filaments pinkish; anthers purple, almost black; pollen orange; stigma purple. Flowers March to August.
Fruit: Fruit 35-60mm; awn with 6-10 spirals directly from the foveole; mericarp 6-10mm, brown, eglandulose; foveole very small, sometimes inconspicuous, without a furrow; cotyledons are trilobate. 2n=20 Guitt.
Distribution: endemic to SW Spain (around Ronda) in limestone rock crevices; 700-1300m: Sierra de Grazalema and mountains around Antequera.
