Allium stellatum

Ker Gawler

Bot. Mag. 38: plate 1576. 1813.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Mentioned on page 228, 247.

Bulbs 1–5+, usually clustered, often short-rhizomatous at base, rhizome not stout or irislike, ovoid, 2–4 × 1–2.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, grayish or brownish, membranous, fibers parallel, few, or sometimes reticulate, cells obscure, finely meshed; inner coats whitish to pinkish, cells obscure, ± quadrate. Leaves persistent, green at anthesis, 3–5, basally sheathing, sheaths never extending much above soil level; blade solid, flat, channeled, 14–35 cm × 1–5 mm, margins ± entire. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, or, if nodding at anthesis, becoming erect, solid, terete or ± 4-angled, particularly distally, 20–50 cm × 1–3.5 mm. Umbel persistent, nodding, becoming erect, ± loose, 9–40-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 2–4-veined, lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. Flowers stellate, 5–8 mm; tepals spreading, deep pink, elliptic-lanceolate, ± equal, withering in fruit, margins entire, apex acute, midribs not thickened; stamens exserted; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary conspicuously crested; processes 6, distinct, flattened, ± triangular, margins entire or toothed; style exserted, linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 0–20 mm. Seed-coat dull; cells minutely roughened. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat: Often on calcareous soils
Elevation: 300–2200 m

Distribution

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Man., Ont., Sask., Ark., Ill., Iowa, Kans., Mich., Minn., Mo., Nebr., N.Dak., Okla., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Wis.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"thicker" is not a number."broad" is not a number.

... more about "Allium stellatum"
versatile +  and dorsifixed +
cordate +  and linear +
acute +  and acuminate +
Dale W. McNeal Jr. +  and T. D. Jacobsen +
Ker Gawler +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
dilated +
straight +
14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
channeled +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
conspicuous +
1;several +
short-rhizomatous +
1 +  and 5 +
roughened +  and smooth +
quadrate +
Man. +, Ont. +, Sask. +, Ark. +, Ill. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mo. +, Nebr. +, N.Dak. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +  and Wis. +
300–2200 m +
brownish +  and grayish +
membranous +
connate-coroniform +  and dilated +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
loculicidal +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
Often on calcareous soils +
paired +, paniculate +  and racemose +
whitish +  and pinkish +
persistent +
toothed +  and entire +
not thickened +
gray +  and brown +
crested +
many;several +
spreading +  and erect +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
membranous +
zygomorphic +  and actinomorphic +
Flowering Jul–Oct. +
triangular +  and flattened +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +  and 4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (?) +
ovoid +  and irislike +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +  and 2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (?) +
persistent +
20cm +  and 50cm +
erect +  and nodding +
4-angled +  and terete +
1mm +  and 3.5mm +
wind-distributed +
1 +  and many +
obovoid +
adnate +  and free +
1 +  and several +
Allium stellatum +
species +
persisting +
distinct +
elliptic-lanceolate +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
narrower +
9-40-flowered +
persistent +
erect +  and nodding +
hemispheric +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +