Erodium touchyanum Del.
Clade II; Subclade 4; Section Cicutaria, Subsection Cicutaria
Erodium touchyanum is a very hairy annual herb, 6-13(-37) cm high.
Leaves: Leaves pinnate with bipinnatisect leaflets, no intercalary leaflets.
Inflorescence: umbels, on a leafy flowering stem, with 1-8 flowers, scented of musk; sepals densely glandular pubescent, mucro turns purple in fruit: petals pink, usually all have ± hexagonal violet spots, but principally the upper 2; staminodes both hairy and ciliate; stamen filaments hairy, and with 2 teeth at the base; pollen orange.
Fruit: Beak 3.5-4.5cm; mericarp with a very large infra-foveolar furrow, both furrow and foveole with subsessile glands; awn yellow with long fibres at the base in small tufts; cotyledons pinnatisect. 2n=20 Guitt.
Distribution: normally in the clay and stony lands typical of the coastal plains, on the lower slopes of mountains from Canary Islands to Iraq.
