Erodium chevallieri (Chev.) Guitt.
Erodium chevallieri is an annual or biennial with a swollen fusiform tuber-like root: it is like E. glaucophyllum but with stems, petioles, peduncles and pedicels pubescent.
Leaves entire, lamina leathery and densely tomentose, oval with a flat or slightly heart-shaped base, crenate, basal leaves about 2cm long on petiole of 4-5cm.
Inflorescence: Several more or less unbranched long thin stems 10-20 or 30cm, probably usually prostrate, few leaved, stem leaves nearly sessile, with axillary peduncles of 2-4 flowers; sepals 5mm, pedicel & sepal back may be white-pruinose; petals small, just longer than sepals, pink or white, veined pink, silvery with long hairs; (flowers like E. glaucophyllum.)
Fruit: Mericarp; foveole with slight ridge in middle, without hairs; awn with long soft hairs, feathery; beak 8cm including carpel of 8mm. Erodium type pollen
Distribution: endemic to Saharan Algeria, Ouargla , El Golea; probably edges of N Sahara to Egypt and Arabia.
First published in P.Vorster (ed.), Proc. Int. Geraniac. Symp.: 76 (1990)
