Erodium brachycarpum (Godr.) Thell.

Annual rosulate to caulescent herb. Stems up to 0.2 m long, prostrate, hispid and with glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, subopposite or opposite, sparsely to densely hispid and glandular; petiole ±15 mm long; stipules 4-6, ovate; blade ±30 x 15 mm, pinnately veined, oblong to ovate, at least the upper deeply pinnatifid and sharply dentate, hispid with glandular hairs, apex acute, base obtuse. Inflorescence of 2 flowers; peduncles 25-30 mm long, hispid and glandular; pedicels 6-7 mm long, pubescent and glandular; bracts ±6, ovate, subglabrous, straw coloured, scarious. Sepals 5-6 x 3 mm, densely glandular and pubescent, apical mucro terete and 1 mm long. Petals 7-8 x 3-4 mm, violet. Stamens free; fertile stamens with narrowly ovate filaments of 4 mm long; staminodes subulate, 2 mm long. Ovary 1-2 mm long with terminal beak 2-3 mm long; style 0-1 mm long; stigmas 1 mm long. Mericarps: head ±8 mm long, apical pit eglandular and with 1 furrow below pit, tail ±65 mm long. Seed 3-4 mm long.