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|accepted_name=Allium acuminatum
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 184, plate 196. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium acuminatum var. cuspidatum
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
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|name=Allium cuspidatum
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium acuminatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Allium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Allium acuminatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 231, 262
|treatment_page=page 261
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="bulb quantity;bulb arrangement or growth form;bulb shape;bulb length;bulb width"><b>Bulbs </b>1–12+, not basally clustered, not forming rhizomes, ovoid to ± globose, 0.8–1.6 × 0.9–1.6 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="outer coat coloration;outer coat architecture or coloration or relief;outer coat texture;bulb quantity;cell shape;cell shape;wall width;wall course">outer coats enclosing 1 or more renewal bulbs, ± yellowbrown, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous, cells square or polygonal, walls thick, obscurely sinuous, without fibers;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="inner coat coloration;cell prominence;cell shape">inner coats white, cells obscure, ± quadrate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf life cycle;leaf architecture or shape;tip quantity"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2–3, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade architecture;blade shape;blade shape;blade length;blade width;margin architecture or shape">blade solid, subterete or ± channeled, 7–30 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="scape duration;scape architecture or arrangement or growth form;scape orientation;scape architecture;scape shape;scape length;scape width"><b>Scape </b>persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 10–35 cm × 1–3 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="umbel duration;umbel orientation;umbel architecture or fragility;umbel architecture;umbel shape"><b>Umbel </b>persistent, erect, loose, 10–40-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spathe bract duration;spathe bract quantity;spathe bract architecture;spathe bract shape;spathe bract variability;apex shape">spathe bracts persistent, 2, 3–7-veined, lanceolate to ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower shape;flower some measurement"><b>Flowers </b>campanulate, 8–15 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="tepal orientation;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal shape;tepal size;tepal texture;tepal shape;margin shape;apex shape;outer tepal length or size;outer tepal width;outer tepal orientation;tip orientation">tepals erect, pink to rose-purple, or white, lanceolate to lanceovate, unequal, becoming rigid and keeled in fruit, margins finely denticulate (inner tepal more prominently so), apex acuminate, outer tepal longer and wider than inner, spreading to recurved at tip, inner tepal with strongly recurved tips;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stamen position">stamens included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="anther coloration">anthers yellow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pollen coloration">pollen yellow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="ovary shape">ovary crested;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="process quantity;process position;process shape;process shape;process size;margin architecture or shape">processes 3, central, 2-lobed, rounded, minute, margins entire;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="style arrangement or course or shape;stamen variability">style linear, equaling stamens;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape;stigma size or width;stigma shape">stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, obscurely 3-lobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="pedicel some measurement">pedicel 6–25 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="seed-coat reflectance;seed-coat reflectance"><b>Seed-</b>coat dull or shining;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="">cells minutely roughened.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="cell relief or texture;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry slopes and plains
|elevation=100–1500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium acuminatum
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Allium acuminatum var. cuspidatum;Allium cuspidatum
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry slopes and plains
|elevation=100–1500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1838
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Allium
|species=Allium acuminatum
|2n chromosome quantity=14
|anther coloration=yellow
|apex shape=acuminate;acuminate
|blade architecture=solid
|blade length=7cm;30cm
|blade shape=channeled;subterete
|blade width=1mm;3mm
|bulb arrangement or growth form=clustered
|bulb length=0.8cm;1.6cm
|bulb quantity=1;1;12
|bulb shape=ovoid;more or less globose
|bulb width=0.9cm;1.6cm
|cell prominence=obscure
|cell relief or texture=roughened
|cell shape=quadrate;polygonal;square
|flower shape=campanulate
|flower some measurement=8mm;15mm
|inner coat coloration=white
|leaf architecture or shape=sheathing
|leaf duration=persistent
|leaf life cycle=withering
|margin architecture or shape=entire;entire
|margin shape=denticulate
|outer coat architecture or coloration or relief=cellular-reticulate
|outer coat coloration=yellowbrown
|outer coat texture=membranous
|outer tepal length or size=longer
|outer tepal orientation=spreading;recurved
|outer tepal width=longer and wider
|ovary shape=crested
|pedicel some measurement=6mm;25mm
|pollen coloration=yellow
|process position=central
|process quantity=3
|process shape=rounded;2-lobed
|process size=minute
|scape architecture=solid
|scape architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|scape duration=persistent
|scape length=10cm;35cm
|scape orientation=erect
|scape shape=terete
|scape width=1mm;3mm
|seed-coat reflectance=shining;dull
|spathe bract architecture=3-7-veined
|spathe bract duration=persistent
|spathe bract quantity=2
|spathe bract shape=lanceolate;ovate
|spathe bract variability=equal
|stamen position=included
|stamen variability=equaling
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|stigma shape=3-lobed
|stigma size or width=thickened
|style arrangement or course or shape=linear
|tepal coloration=pink;rose-purple or white
|tepal orientation=erect
|tepal shape=keeled;lanceolate;lanceovate
|tepal size=unequal
|tepal texture=rigid
|tip orientation=recurved
|tip quantity=2;3
|umbel architecture=10-40-flowered
|umbel architecture or fragility=loose
|umbel duration=persistent
|umbel orientation=erect
|umbel shape=hemispheric
|wall course=sinuous
|wall width=thick
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