Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Short-Fruit Heron's-Bill, Short-Fruit Storksbill, Shortfruit Stork's Bill
Description
Genus Erodium
Annual
or perennial
herbs. Leaves lobed
or pinnatisect
, longer
than broad, stipulate
. Flowers in cincinnal
umbels, rarely solitary or 2. Involucral bracts
2 or more, united
or free
. Sepals and petals Fertile
stamens 5, alternating with 5 staminodes. Ovary 5-lobed, long beaked
in fruit. Beak
plumose
or bristly
within on dehiscence. The stylar
axis usually spirally twisted below. Mericarps with 2 apical pits.
About 90 species in Europe, Mediterranean region, C.
& S.W. Asia, Australia and tropical
S. America. Represented in Pakistan by 7 species.[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,609 meters (0 to 5,279 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Geranianae
()
- (Dumortier, 1829) Takhtajan, 1997
- Order:
Geraniales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Geraniaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Family:
Geraniaceae
(
- Order:
Geraniales
(
- Superorder:
Geranianae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Erodium botrys var. brachycarpum Godr. • Erodium Botrys Brachycarpum • Erodium obtusiplicatum (Maire • Weiller and Wilczek) J. T. Howell
Notes
Publishing author : Thell. Publication : The Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles 5 1918 (Sep. 1918)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Erodium
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 44 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
E. alpinum (Herons Bill) · E. botrys (Big Herons Bill) · E. brachycarpum (Short-Fruit Heron's-Bill) · E. carvifolium (Herons Bill) · E. chrysanthum (Yellow Herons Bill) · E. ciconium (Common Stork's Bill) · E. cicutarium (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium bipinnatum (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium cicutarium (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium dunense (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium jacquinianum (Alfilaree) · E. cicutarium ssp. bipinnatum (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. cicutarium ssp. cicutarium (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. cicutarium ssp. jacquinianum (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. corsicum (Heronsbill) · E. cygnorum (Australian Heron's-Bill) · E. foetidum 'Alba' (Herons Bill) · E. gruinum (Iranian Herons Bill) · E. jacquinianum (Redstem Stork's Bill) · E. laciniatum (Cut-Leaf Heron's-Bill) · E. laciniatum var. bovei (Cutleaf Stork's Bill) · E. macrophyllum (California Storksbill) · E. macrophyllum var. californicum (California Stork's Bill) · E. macrophyllum var. californicum (Greene) Jeps. (California Stork's Bill) · E. macrophyllum var. macrophyllum (Roundleaf Stork's Bill) · E. malacoides (Mediterranean Heron's-Bill) · E. manescavii (Manescau Erodium) · E. moschatum (Musk Clover) · E. moschatum var. moschatum (Musky Stork's Bill) · E. moschatum var. praecox (Musky Stork's Bill) · E. pelargoniflorum (Herons Bill) · E. reichardii (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Charm' (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Dark Eyes' (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Flora-Plena' (Alpine Geranium) · E. reichardii 'Roseum' (Alpine Geranium) · E. stephenianum (Stephen's Heron's-Bill) · E. texanum (Bull Filaree) · E. trifolium (Herons Bill) · E. x kolbianum 'Natasha' (Herons Bill) · E. x variabile 'Album' (Herons Bill) · E. x variabile 'Bishop's Form' (Bishop's Form Pink Herons Bill) · E. x variabile'Flora Plena' (Herons Bill) · E. 'Spanish Eyes' (Herons Bill)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- Berkeley Natural History Museums: University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
- GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
- GBIF-Spain: Universidad de Extremadura, UNEX
- Oregon State University: Vascular Plant Collection
- UK National Biodiversity Network: Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database
- USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9184913
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-502424
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60057-3
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 502424
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 372190-1
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDGER01020
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: EROB2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 38403
Footnotes
- Yasin J. Nasir "Erodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 29. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 262.270 meters (860.466 feet), Standard Deviation = 348.990 based on 114 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
