Erodium gruinum

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Biennial

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : L'H?r. Publication : in Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 415 (1789)

Basionym author: (L.)

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

• A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599 /edited with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson. 1876 London: Privately printed, 1876 url p. 35.
• A compendium of general botany / by Max Westermaier; translated by Albert Schneider. New York: Wiley, 1896. url p. 279, p. 279.
• A contribution to our knowledge of seedlings; by the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., ltd., 1892. url , p. 303.
• A manual flora of Egypt / by Reno Muschler. With a preface by Paul Ascherson and Georg Schweinfurth. Berlin, R. Friedlaender, 1912. url p. 1227.
• A text-book of botany / London; Macmillan, 1898. url , .
• A text-book of botany, by Dr. Eduard Strasburger. .. Dr. Heinrich Schenck, Ludwig Jost [and] Dr. George Karsten. LondonMacmillan1912 url p. 296.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 123.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1913. url p. 53.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1907 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 366.
• Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass., Essex Institute. url p. 132.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 1 1898 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 146.
• Catalogue of scientific papers (1800-1900) Comp. by the Royal society of London. Cambridge, C. J. Clay and sons, 1867-1902; url p. 277.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. url p. 277.
• Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others, by R. T. Gunther. With nine plates and twenty-one other illustrations. Oxford, Printed by F. Hall for the author at the University Press, 1922. url p. 101.
• Hand-list of herbaceous plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off. by Darling, 1902. url p. 445, p. 509.
• Handbook of flower pollination based upon Hermann Müller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects'; tr. by J.R. Ainsworth Davis. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906. url p. 235.
• Handbook of flower pollination: based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' / Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906-09. url .
• Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Jena, Gustav Fischer [etc.]. url p. 235, p. 236.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. 30 1892 London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 63.
• Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Oxford [etc.]Royal Microscopical Society. url p. 322.
• Leaflets of western botany. San Fransisco:[J. T. Howell], 1932-1966. url p. 68.
• Lectures on the physiology of plants, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887. url .
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. vii, p. x.
• Preliminary catalog of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta, reported as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York City. New York, 1888. url p. 78.
• Proceedings and transactions of the South London Entomological & Natural History Society. London: The Society. url p. 5.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 313.
• Some account of the fauna and flora of Sinai, Petra, and Wa?dy 'Arabah, London, Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine exploration fund by A. P. Watt, 1891. url .
• Some recent researches in plant physiology. By W. R. G. Atkins. London, Whittaker & co., 1916. url p. 285.
• Strasburger's Text-book of botany. Rewritten by Dr. Hans Fitting. .. Dr. Ludwig Jost. .. Dr. Heinrich Schenck. .. Dr. George Karsten. London, Macmillan, 1921. url p. 334.
• Text-book of botany, morphological and physiological. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1882. url p. 940.
• Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological / by Julius Sachs; edited with an appendix, by Sydney H. Vines Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883. url p. 940.
• The English rock-garden, by Reginald Farrer. London, Jack, 1919. url p. 341.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url .
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• The anthropology of Iraq. The Upper Euphrates / by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology. Chicago:Field Museum, 1940 url p. 174, p. 193.
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• The physiology of plants; a treatise upon the metabolism and sources of energy in plants, by Dr. W. Pfeffer. .. 2d fully rev. ed., translated and edited by Alfred J. Ewart. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1900-06. url p. 431.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1137.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:

• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2666976
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-502426
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13731573
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372275-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 15672
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 502426
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 372274-1
• MoBot NameID: 13900030
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDGER010C0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERGR15
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 38395

Footnotes

1. 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]

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