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A new species, Erodium birandianum, is described and illustrated from Kastamonu (NW Anatolia). Il is related to E. absinthoides subsp. armenum. Among some recent1y col1ected specimens of Erodium from Kastamonu, Yara1igiiz Mountain , those was one that cannot be identified with any of the species included in Flora of Turkey (Davis 1966) or its Supplement (Davis & Tan 1988). Il is here described and named as a species new to science.