Erodium sanguis-christi Sennen
Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Malacoidea; Subsection Richardia
Erodium sanguis-cristi is an annual herb, 2-12(25) cm, with ascending or procumbent leafy stems, hairy, with abundant glandular hairs; roots fine, ± branching.
Leaves: leaves elliptical to oblong, pinnatipartite usually with one pair of free leaflets at leaf base, grey-green, with dense appressed hairs on both surfaces and sessile glands beneath; segment 3-7, crenate to pinnatipartite, obtuse; lamina 0.5-3.5 cm; petiole 0.5-2.3cm; stipules 1-2 mm ovate, glabrous, membranaceous, whitish.
Inflorescence: umbels of 2-5; bracts2-6, 0.8-1.5 mm, free, or sometimes 2-3 joined at the base; sepals 2.5 – 4mm, slightly mucronate, with eglandular and glandular hairs, and glands; petals 4.3-7.5 mm, all alike, pink to violet, or rarely white, without a mark at the base; nectaries green to brown; staminodes whitish-pink; stamen filaments pink, anthers purple-blue; pollen yellow; stigmas purple to pink.
Fruit: fruit 30-50 mm; mericarp 3-5mm with yellowish hairs; foveoles eglandular with a narrow furrow. 2n=20 Guitt
Distribution: endemic to Spain, Tarragona on dry limestone rocks near the sea; garrigue.
