Erodium battandierianum Rouy
Erodium battandierianum is a stemless perennial with fusiform root, leaves and flowering stems arising from ground level.
Leaves hairy, entire to shallowly 3-lobed, with round teeth, on rather long petioles, hairy and somewhat shiny.
Inflorescence: umbels of 5-8 flowers on a long peduncle, sepals long elliptical, widely scarious,, shortly mucronate with pubescent veins; petals ± equal, pale violet-pink, with a silvery reverse;, lightly blotched or not; stamen filaments hairy; anthers and stigma dark red; pollen orange.
Fruit: Mericarps 5-6 mm, foveole glandular, without an infrafoveolar furrow; beak dark red, 20-30mm long, 2n=20
Distribution: endemic to Algeria: Kabylie, Chabet el Akra, Dj. Marouf, Dj. Babor on calcareous rocks.
