Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium

Detailed information about the plant.

Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Synonym:
Liliopsida
Description:
Bulbous (rarely nearly bulbless) perennial, sometimes with rhizomes or stolons. Fresh plants with onion-like or garlic-like odor and taste. Leaves linear, linear-lanceolate, or lorate to ovate; flat, angled, semiterete or terete in cross section, fistulose or solid. Inflorescence a terminal umbel, sometimes with bulblets, rarely flowerless and with bulblets only, initially enclosed in a spathe. Perianth segments 6, free or more or less connate at base. Stamens 6, filaments, entire or toothed, more or less connate and adnate to perianth.

Habit (i)
Growth form: (i)
perennial (i)
Water or terrestrial plant: (i)
terrestrial (i)
Flower (i)
Flower appearance and pollination: (i)
attractive, animal-pollinated (i)
Perianth arrangement: (i)
simple, similar (i)
Flower symmetry: (i)
radiary, regular (actinomorphic) (i)
Flower form: (i)
simple (flat) - Do not confuse with inflorescences as in some Asteraceae (i)
Sepal number: (i)
none or rudimentary (i)
Petal / Tepal number: (i)
6 (i)
Petal / Tepal fusion: (i)
free (i)
fused at base (i)
Spur: (i)
no spur (i)
Stamen number: (i)
6 (i)
Stamen fusion: (i)
free (i)
fused with each other (i)
fused with a corolla (calyx in Thymelaeaceae) (i)
Style number: (i)
1
Inflorescence (i)
Inflorescence: (i)
Flowers in inflorescence (i)
Simple inflorescences (i)
Inflorescence type: (i)
umbel (i)
Fruit (i)
Type of fruit: (i)
capsule (i)
Shoot/Stem (i)
Spines, thorns or prickles: (i)
absent (i)
Root / shoot below ground (i)
Storage in below-ground structures: (i)
bulbs with roots on lower side (i)