Liliopsida Asparagales Alliaceae Allium

Bulbous perennial. Bulb depressed-globose, 2-3 cm in diam.; tunics membranaceous to papery, outer tunics blackish. Stem flexuous, terete, smooth; 10-20 cm tall, 5-6 mm in diam. Leaves 1-2, 10-25 cm long, 3-6 cm wide; lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, thick; upper side smooth or with a few grooves, lower side finely ribbed. Spathe divided in 2 suborbicular, reflexed valves; buff with inconspicuous veins. Umbel initially semiglobose later globose; loose, moderately many-flowered; 5-12 cm in diam. Pedicels unequally long. Perianth narrowly triangular campanulate to funnel-shaped; tepals lanceolate, obtuse, obliquely forward directed, later irregularly convolute and crumpled, connivent, basally for 1/3 (inner tepals) to 1/4 (outer ones) connate; outer tepals 10-12 mm long and 3-3.5 mm wide, inner tepals 8-11 mm long and c. 2.5 mm wide; pinkish-lilac, with a narrow, maroon to greenish brown median vein. Filaments 1/2 as long as the tepals; the basal 2/3 connate, the free part very shortly triangular (inner filaments longer and broader) widened; whitish with pink to violet apex. Anthers oblong; c. 1.5 mm long and 0.8 mm wide; reddish. Ovary shortly stipitate, triangularly depressed-globose, c. 3 mm long and in diam.; surface finely papillous; silk-glossy vividly green. Style conical-threadlike, 2-3 mm long; bright pink to violet. Stigma undivided; whitish. Capsule and seeds not seen.