Erodium antariense Rouy
Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Foetida; series glandulosum.
Erodium antariense is a subcaulescent perennial with a long tap root.
Leaves: lamina ovate to triangular ovate, bi- or tri-pinnatisect, with intercalary leaflets, upper and lower surfaces silvery, with dense adpressed silver eglandular hairs; principal segments 5-11; tertiary lobes usually longer than wide; leaflets in one plane, lobules ovate, ± obtuse.
Inflorescence: umbels of up to 7 flowers directly from the base; flowers a little irregular; bracts greenish white, narrowly membranaceous; mucro very short; petals unequal, of one colour, white, the superior 2 petals strongly blotched with purple, with veins within the blotch, covering ½ or more of the petal, overlapping, lower 3 narrower, not overlapping and unmarked; nectaries olive-green, spherical; staminodes glabrous, pink, stamen filaments glabrous, pink; anthers pink or purple.
Fruit: mericarps 5-6.6 mm, foveole large suborbicular, with stalked glands, no furrows.
Distribution: Morocco and Algeria
