Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium

Bulbous perennial. Bulb ovoid to subglobose, 3-7(10) cm in diam., 4-8 cm long; tunics yellowish to brown, parchment-like, later blackish and disintegrating. Stem straight, terete, smooth; 60-120 cm tall, 6-15(20) mm in diam. Leaves 3-6, 40-60(70) cm long, 3-9 cm wide; broadly oblong-lanceolate, rather stiff and straight, near base very thick and canaliculate, upper part thinner, nearly flat; glabrous, upper side smooth or later with narrow fine grooves, the lower side with broad and flat ribs; dark green with strong glaucous bloom, basally maroon flushed. Spathe membranous, completely divided into 2-3(4) ovate, long acuminate valves, mostly shorter than the pedicels; brownish with inconspicuous veins. Umbel initially semiglobose finally ± ovoid; very dense, many-flowered; 6-12 cm in diam. Pedicels subequally long. Perianth bowl-shaped to flat star-like; tepals ovate-lanceolate, concave, with subacute plicate tip, patent, later recurved and crumbled; 9-10 mm long, basally 2-2.5 mm wide; deep pinkish-lilac to pale violet with darker or greenish, slightly keel-like median vein. Filaments initially as long later longer than the tepals; basally for 0.5 mm connate and outer filaments slightly, inner filaments broadly triangular widened, sometimes 2-toothed, above subulate; basally whitish, above pinkish violet. Anthers linear-oblong; 2-3 mm long, c. 1 mm wide; pale violet. Ovary stipitate, depressed globose-triangular, 3 mm long and 2.5-3 mm in diam.; surface finely but sharply papillous with smooth stalk; green. Style conical to thread-like, 4-8 mm long; pale to deep violet. Stigma undivided; white to violet. Capsule blunt double pyramidal with subconcave (near base subconvex) sides, up to 10 mm in diam., 6-8 mm long. Seeds 2-3(4) per locule, broadly ovate with rather sharp edges; surface finely reticulate lacunose, dull black; 3-3.5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide.