Biology:Erodium malacoides
| Erodium malacoides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Geraniales |
| Family: | Geraniaceae |
| Genus: | Erodium |
| Species: | E. malacoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.
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Erodium malacoides is a species of flowering plant in the geranium family known by the common names mallow-leaved stork's bill,[1] Mediterranean stork's bill,[2] and soft stork's-bill.[3] It is an annual or biennial herb which is native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe (north to 49°N in western France), northern Africa, and southwest Asia.[4][1] It can be found locally elsewhere is an introduced species.[4]
Description
The young plant grows a number of rugose green leaves, radially outward flat against the ground. The stems reach 10–60 cm in height, with more leaves on long, hairy petioles, with glandular hairs.[1][5] It bears small flowers in umbels of 3–7 together; they are 10–16 mm diameter, with fuzzy, soft spine-tipped sepals and five purplish petals 5-9 mm long with rounded (not notched) apices.[5] The fruit is green with a glandular body about 5 mm long, with a long, pointed style 18–35 mm long.[1][5][6] It grows in dry, sunny habitats. In the south of its range in Malta, it flowers from January to June,[1] while further north in western France, from June to August.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mifsud, Stephen (2002-08-23). "Erodium malacoides (Mallow-leaved Stork's Bill): MaltaWildPlants.com - the online Flora of the Maltese Islands." (in en). https://www.maltawildplants.com/GERN/Erodium_malacoides.php.
- ↑ "Erodium malacoides". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=ERMA6. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ↑ (xls) BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, https://bsbi.org/download/3542/, retrieved 2014-10-17
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.". https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A372332-1.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Blamey, Marjorie; Grey-Wilson, Christopher (1989-01-01). The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 230. ISBN 0-340-40170-2.
- ↑ Aedo, Carlos; Navarro, Carmen (2014). "Erodium malacoides". http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=76818.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5395289 entry
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