Allium textile

A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride

Bot. Gaz. 56: 470. 1913.

IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Allium reticulatum Fraser ex G. Don 1827
Synonyms: Allium aridum Rydberg Allium reticulatum var. playanum M. E. Jones
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 243. Mentioned on page 227, 239.

Bulbs 1–3+, not rhizomatous, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1.2–2.5 × 1–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, gray or brown, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure. Leaves persistent, green at anthesis, 2, sheathing; blade solid, ± straight, channeled, semiterete, 10–40 cm × 1–3 (–5) mm, margins entire or denticulate. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, ± terete, 5–30 (–40) cm × 1–3 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, compact to ± loose, 15–30-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 3, usually 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. Flowers urceolate to campanulate, 5–7 mm; tepals erect, white or rarely pink, with red or reddish-brown midribs; outer whorl broadly ovate to lanceolate, unequal, becoming callous-keeled and permanently investing capsule, margins often obscurely toothed apically, apex obtuse to acuminate; inner whorl narrower, margins entire, apex distinctly spreading; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary ± conspicuously crested; processes 6, central, distinct or connate in pairs across septa, ± erect, rounded, to 1 mm, margins entire, becoming variously developed or obsolete in fruit; style linear, equaling filaments; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed; pedicel 5–20 mm. Seed-coat shining; cells ± smooth, without central papillae. 2n = 14, 28.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Dry plains and hills
Elevation: 300–2400 m

Distribution

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Alta., Man., Sask., Colo., Idaho, Iowa, Kans., Minn., Mont., Nebr., Nev., N.Mex., N.Dak., S.Dak., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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

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versatile +  and dorsifixed +
cordate +  and linear +
obtuse +  and acuminate +
Dale W. McNeal Jr. +  and T. D. Jacobsen +
A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
dilated +
Allium reticulatum +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
straight +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
semiterete +  and channeled +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
conspicuous +
1;several +
not rhizomatous +
1.2cm +  and 2.5cm +
1 +  and 3 +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
brown;gray +
roughened +  and smooth +
elongate +
Alta. +, Man. +, Sask. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Minn. +, Mont. +, Nebr. +, Nev. +, N.Mex. +, N.Dak. +, S.Dak. +, Utah +, Wash. +  and Wyo. +
300–2400 m +
connate-coroniform +  and dilated +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
urceolate +  and campanulate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
loculicidal +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
Dry plains and hills +
paired +, paniculate +  and racemose +
persistent +
toothed +, denticulate +  and entire +
reddish-brown +  and red +
open +  and fine-meshed +
gray +  and brown +
crested +
many;several +
spreading +  and erect +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
membranous +
zygomorphic +  and actinomorphic +
Flowering May–Jun. +
connate +  and distinct +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
persistent +
5cm +  and 30cm +
1mm +  and 3mm +
wind-distributed +
1 +  and many +
obovoid +
W2 +, Illustrated +  and Endemic +
adnate +  and free +
1 +  and several +
lobed +, unlobed +  and capitate +
Allium aridum +  and Allium reticulatum var. playanum +
Allium textile +
species +
persisting +
distinct +
petal-like +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
narrower +
15-30-flowered +, compact +  and more or less loose +
persistent +
hemispheric +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +