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  • COMMON NAME: Storkbill
  • ARABIC: منقار الطير
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Erodium glaucophyllum (L.) L'Her.
  • SYNONYMS: Erodium glabrum
  • FAMILY: GERANIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/erodium_glaucophyllum.htm
Perennial, glabrous or glabrescent, 5-40 cm high. Roots creeping, with oblong thickenings. Stems prostrate, ascending to erect, divaricately branched above. Stipules membranous. Lower leaves crowded, 2-5 cm long, ovate to oblong, crenate or lobed. Peduncles longer than the subtending leaves. Umbels 2-5 flowered. Bracts ovate-oblong, hairy, scarious. Pedicels 8-12 mm long. Sepals 4-6 mm long, membranous-margined, hairy at nerves, ending with long purplish mucro. Petals 7-10 mm long, purple, distincet, imbricate, ovate, 3-veined, ciliate at base. Perfect stamens 5, filaments not ciliate, mericarps 3-5 mm long, with 2-furrows beneath beak, beak 5-9 cm long, lower part not feathry. Seed obconical, brown, smooth about 3 mm long. Flowering from March to April.
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