Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium alaicum Vved.
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 19-20 (2017); Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae, vol. 2: 84 (1971); Red Data Book of Uzbekistan, vol. 1: 172-173 (2009)
Habitat:
stony and gravelly slopes in foothills and montane zone
Description:
Bulb ovoid to globose, 10-15 mm in diam.; outer tunics blackish-grey, papery. Stem in the lower part with reflected hairs, above nearly smooth and glabrous, 30-70 cm tall, c. 5-6 mm in diam. Leaves 1-2, linear-lanceolate, covered with long reflected hairs, 15-30 cm long and 5-20 mm wide. Spathe membranaceous, with very short tip, ca. as 1/2 as long as the pedicels, pale brownish with purplish veins. Umbel fasciculate-semiglobose rarely subglobose, rather lax, many-flowered, 4-6 cm in diam. Pedicels equal, without bracts. Perianth star-shaped; tepals ca. 6 mm long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, pink to pale violet with darker midvein, after anthesis recurved and twisted. Filaments longer than the tepals, at base connate and slightly widened, above subulate, pale to deep pink.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
from 250 mm to 600 mm
from 600 mm to 1000 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)
Distribution (i)
Distribution (Phytochoria):
(i)
Fergana-Alay
Phenology (i)
Flowering Period:
(i)
May
June
Fruiting Period:
(i)
June
July
Plant Status (i)
Red list status:
(i)
2 - Rare, Endangered (Red Data Book of Uzbekistan, 2009) (i)