Erodium munbyanum Boiss.
Erodium munbyanum is a perennial herb; plants hispid, little or not glandular stems to 20cm, about 8mm thick; roots not tuberous.
Leaves: basal leaves entire, glabrous, triangular, round toothed to ± 3 lobed, lamina to 7cm, petioles to 18cm; upper leaves pinnatisect; stipules large, ovate, usually 15 x 6mm, membranous, brown.
Inflorescence: annual flowering stems hairy or glandulose; umbels of 5-7 flowers; bracts obtuse, soldered in 2 plates, glabrous, scarious; sepals 3-7 nerved; mucro more than 2mm; flowers about 2cm across, petals are pink, unequal, do not touch and are narrowly obovate and ciliate at the base, the 2 upper are smaller and have 2 faint dots; pollen red-orange.
Fruit: Beak 5-7cm; mericarp 6-7mm; foveoles little or not glandular, without furrow beneath. 2n=20 Guitt.
Distribution: endemic to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia in coastal sand dunes.
Notes: makes fertile hybrids with E. nervulosum
