Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium
Detailed information about the plant.
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Alliaceae
Genus:
Allium
Editor:
Beshko N.
Scientific name:
Allium chorkessaricum F.O. Khass. & Tojibaev
Name acc. to:
Flora of Uzbekistan, 2 ed., vol. 1: 99-100 (2017)
Habitat:
stony slopes and rocks in subalpine zone (2900–3100 m.s.l.)
Description:
Bulbs several in a cluster on the rhizome, cylindrical, 5–15 mm long and 5–10 mm thick; tunics brownish, reticulate-fibrous. Stem 15–30 cm tall, smooth, in the lower part covered by slightly scabrous leaf sheaths. Leaves 2–4, ca. 1 mm wide, smooth. Spathe bipartite, shorter than umbel, persistent. Umbel fasciculate, hemispherical, many-flowered, dense. Pedicels equal, 6–10 mm long, without bracteoles at the base. Perianth campanulate; tepals pink, with purple midvein, 3.5–4.5 mm long, acute. Filaments pink, subulate, longer than perianth, at the base connate with the tepals. Anthers purple. Style long exerted. Ovary globose, purple, with crown at the top.
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)