Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium altissimum Regel
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 42 (2017); Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae, vol. 2: 85 (1971)
Habitat:
valleys of mountain rivers
Description:
Bulb almost globose, 3-6.5 cm in diam., with grey papery tunics. Stem 80-150 cm tall. Leaves 4-6, lanceolate, almost lorate. Spathe membranaceous, shortly acuminate, 1/3-1/2 as long as pedicels. Umbel globose, many-flowered, dense, up to 9 cm in diam. Pedicels almost equal, 2–4 times longer than perianth, without bracts. Perianth star-shaped; tepals purple with dark median vein, 6-8 mm long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, after anthesis recurved and twisted. Filaments slightly shorter than tepals, triangular-subulate, at the base connate; inner filaments at the base remarkably broader than outer ones.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
from 600 mm to 1000 mm
from 1000 mm to 3000 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