Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium alexeianum Regel
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 35-36 (2017); Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae, vol. 2: 81 (1971)
Confuse with:
Allium nevskianum
Habitat:
gravelly and stony slopes, screes, 1500-2800 m.s.l.
Description:
Bulb nearly globose, up to 3 cm in diam.; outer tunics papery, blackish. Stem robust, stocky, shorter than the leaves, 4-20(30) cm tall. Leaves 1-3, ovate or oblong-ovate, thick, 10-20(25) cm long, 2.5-7(9) cm wide. Spathe membranaceous, shortly acuminate, 2-3 times shorter than pedicels. Umbel semiglobose or nearly globose, lax, many-flowered, 7.5-10(20) cm in diameter. Pedicels unequal. Perianth almost star-shaped; tepals 6-9(10) mm long, dirty pink or greenish-brownish, with dark midvein, lanceolate, acute, after anthesis prickly with thickened midvein. Filaments slightly or up to 1.5 times shorter than tepals, at the base connate; inner filaments triangular-subulate, at the base ca. 2 times broader than outer.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
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)
May
June
July