Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium aroides Popov & Vved.
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 28-29 (2017); Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae, vol. 2: 81 (1971)
Habitat:
fine earth and stony slopes, 1400-1600 m.s.l.
Description:
Bulb ovate, 1-2 cm in diam., with greyish-brownish leathery tunics, longitudinally splitting, protruding in a long neck. Bulblet single, large, oblong. Stem 20-40 cm tall. Leaves 1-2, linear, 20-35(40) cm long, 5-10 mm wide, early withering. Spathe slightly shorter than pedicels, with a long beak. Umbel semiglobose to globose, lax, many-flowered, 6-10 cm in diam. Pedicels almost equal, without bracts. Perianth star-shaped; tepals greenish or pinkish with dirty purple or dirty green midvein, linear-oblong, obtuse, 4 mm long, after anthesis reflexed and curled. Filaments almost equal with tepals, in the lower part comnnate, at the base adnate to perianth, triangular-subulate; inner ones 2 times as broad as outer.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
from 100 mm to 250 mm
from 250 mm to 600 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