Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium aktauense F.O. Khass. & Esankulov
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 87 (2017)
Habitat:
stony and gravelly slopes
Description:
Bulb ovate, 5-6 mm in width; outer tunics nearly coriaceous, blackish-brown, fibrous and nearly reticulate; bulblets several. Stem 5-10 cm long. Leaves 2, filiform, 0.5-1 mm thick, shorter than stem. Spathe scarious, shorter than pedicels, with a short beak, persistent. Umbel fasciculate, few-flowered. Pedicels slightly unequal, 5-10 mm long, without basal bracteoles. Perianth campanulate; tepals 3.5 mm long, almost equal, elliptical, obtuse, umbilicate at base, pink with dirty purple midvein. Filaments triangular, 1/2 as long as tepals, in the lower 1/4 connate and adnate to perianth segments; inner filaments at the base 2 times broader than outer. Anthers violet. Style not exserted.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
to 100 mm
from 100 mm to 250 mm
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)
Phenology (i)
Flowering Period:
(i)
April
Fruiting Period:
(i)
May