Erodium celtibericum Pau
Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Foetida; series foetidum
Erodium celtibericum is a tufted perennial to small-sub-shrubby, rootstock woody, branching.
Leaves very small, silvery, triangular-ovate in outline, bi- to tripinnatisect with intercalary leaflets; the leaflets held very closely and upright like a hedgehog’s spines, ultimate divisions oval, hairs short, to 0.5mm, also erect, glandular. Stipules adnate on half or more of their length, triangular or broadly triangular
Inflorescence: umbels of 2-5 flowers; flowers 15-20mm across; bracts 4-6, 4-7mm, free, whitish; pedicels with long glandular hairs and a few eglandular; sepals 3.5-7mm with some glandular and eglandular hairs, mucro 0.3-0.8mm. Petals 7-11 mm, unequal, white, sometimes lightly tinted pink, veined purple, the upper often, and sometimes the lower petals, with a small purple mark on the claw, covering up to a 1/3 of the surface, sometimes absent, and all petals notched; despite the (not conspicuous) marks, the flowers appear regular; staminodes and stamen filaments glabrous, anthers pink or purple, pollen coral-pink, stigmas whitish-pink to purple. Flowers May to August (September).
Fruit: rostrum 15-20 mm, mericarp 4-5 mm, brown foveole with stalked glands and edged with rigid fibres, no furrow. 2n=20
Distribution: Thickets and grasslands of open areas, in shallow limestone soils, stony ledges and rock fissures; (1000) 1400-2050 m. Puertos de Beceite and environs, and central and southern Sistema Iberico -sierra de Albarracin; E of the Serrania de Cuenca, Javalambre, Gudar and Penagolosa
