Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Synonym:
Liliopsida
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium backhousianum Regel
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 18-19 (2017); Red Data Book of Uzbekistan: 174 (2009)
Habitat:
stony, gravelly and fine-earth slopes, 1500-2000 m.s.l.
Description:
Bulb ovate-globose, 3-5 cm in diam., with blackish papery tunics. Stem 90-150 cm tall. Leaves 5-6, lorate, 4-8 cm wide, smooth, glabrous, shorter than the stem. Spathe 1.5 times shorter than umbel, with a very short beak. Umbel globose, dense, many-flowered, 5-10 cm in diam. Pedicels unequal, without bracts. Perianth star-shaped; tepals white with green midvein, linear, 11 mm long, after anthesis reflexed and curled. Filaments slightly shorter than tepals, at the base adnate to perianth, subulate; inner ones 1.5 times as broad as outer, with lateral teeth.
Habit (i)
Growth form:
(i)
perennial (i)
Size of plant:
(i)
from 600 mm to 1000 mm
from 1000 mm to 3000 mm
Parasite status:
(i)
no parasite/saprophyte (i)
Water or terrestrial plant:
(i)
terrestrial (i)
Leaf (i)
Shape of blade:
(i)
linear incl.grasslike or oblong (i)
Width of leaves:
(i)
> 3 cm (i)
Flower (i)
Flower appearance and pollination:
(i)
attractive, animal-pollinated (i)
Flower colour:
(i)
white (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)
Hairs
Has hairs?:
no hairs, glabrous
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
Eastern Alay
Distribution (Administrative regions):
(i)
Fergana
Phenology (i)
Flowering Period:
(i)
May
June
Fruiting Period:
(i)
June
July
Plant Status (i)
Endemism:
subendemic
Red list status:
(i)
1 - Disappearing, Critically Endangered (Red Data Book of Uzbekistan, 2009) (i)