Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium atroviolaceum Boiss.
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 1 ed., vol. 1: 454 (1941); Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 50 (2017); Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae, vol. 2: 79 (1971)
Habitat:
fields, fallow lands, dry slopes, river valleys, up to 1000 m.s.l.
Comments:
naturalized alien
Description:
Bulb ovoid-globose, 1.5-2.5 cm diam.; tunics greyish-brownish, subreticutate, extended; bulblets usually numerous. Stem 60-100 cm tall, up to 1/2 covered with leaf sheaths. Leaves 4-5, widely linear, 2-10 mm width. Spathe with a long beak (up to 10-13 cm). Umbel spherical, dense, many-flowered. Pedicels 3-6 times longer than the perianth and unequal in length. Tepals dark purple-violet, glossy, 3-4 mm long. Filaments longer than the petals, ciliate at the base; the outer ones triangular, simple, inner filaments with long lateral cusps.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
from 600 mm to 1000 mm
Water or terrestrial plant:
(i)
terrestrial (i)
Flower (i)
Flower appearance and pollination:
(i)
attractive, animal-pollinated (i)
Flower colour:
(i)
purple to violet (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 (Administrative regions):
(i)
Tashkent
Samarkand
Phenology (i)
Flowering Period:
(i)
June
July
August