Male with rough leathery sort of skin suffering from redness (9)

I believe the answer is:

erythemal

'sort of skin suffering from redness' is the definition.

'male with rough leathery' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'male' is 'emal' which is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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