Erodium heterosepalum Blatter
Erodium heterosepalum is an annual. Stems to 11cm; stems few, retro-hispid, ascending, little branched.
Leaves: basal leaves few; petiole 1-3 x leaf-blade, covered in retrorse hispid hairs; leaf blade ovate-reniform or cordate, hispid, to 3×2.5 cm deeply lobed; lobes pinnate-incised; lobules entire and obtuse; upper leaves on shorter petioles and pinnatifid; stipules variable, broad ovate and acute, membranous, pale, sparsely soft hairy, margin ciliate, 5×4 mm.
Inflorescence: Peduncles up to 3.5cm, usually 7 flowered; bracts 5, free, round, obtuse or subobtuse, glabrous, margin ciliate, c3 mm, membranous, pale; pedicels nearly 5mm long, filiform, in fruit not thickening; sepals oblong, 3 or 5 nerved, mucronate, up to 4×1 mm wide but varying, white margined and densely hairy; petals small, equal, purple, unspotted, shortly clawed, shorter than the sepals, rounded.
Fruit: Beak up to 3 cm long, covered in short hairs.
Distribution: endemic to Asia: Pakistan – N Waziristan, east of Miranshah Fort on the right bank of the river Chasmai on sand between rocks at 977m
Notes: close to E. laciniatum
