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|accepted_name=Allium kunthii
|accepted_authority=G. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc.
|place=6: 82. 1827
|year=1827
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Schoenoprasum lineare
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
|publication_title=
|publication_place=
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium scaposum
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium kunthii
|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 kunthii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 230, 231
|treatment_page=page 257
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="bulb quantity;rhizome presence;rhizome position or structure subtype;rhizome prominence;rhizome some measurement;rhizome some measurement;rhizome width;bulb life cycle;parent bulb prominence;parent bulb arrangement or growth form;parent bulb shape;parent bulb length;parent bulb width"><b>Bulbs </b>1–4+, rhizomes, if present, secondary, inconspicuous, 2 cm or less including renewal bulb, ± thick, terminated by new bulb, parent bulbs disappearing by anthesis except for still-functional roots and bulb coat, not basally clustered, ovoid, 1–2 × 0.8–1.5 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="outer coat coloration;outer coat coloration;outer coat coloration or pubescence or relief;outer coat texture;marking prominence;marking fragility;marking architecture;cell shape;row architecture;row orientation">outer coats enclosing renewal bulbs or not, grayish or brownish, with or without obscure, delicate, cellular markings, sometimes striate, membranous, cells elongate, in regular vertical rows, without fibers;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="bulb coat coloration;bulb coat coloration;cell prominence;cell shape;cell shape;cell shape">inner bulb coats whitish or pinkish, cells obscure, ± quadrate or rectangular and vertically elongate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf coloration;leaf quantity;leaf architecture or shape;sheath size"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, green at anthesis, 2–5, basally sheathing, sheaths not extended much above soil surface;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade architecture;blade prominence or shape;blade shape;blade length;blade width;margin shape;vein shape">blade solid, flat, channeled, 10–21 cm × 1–3 mm, margins and veins sometimes denticulate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="scape duration;scape architecture or arrangement or growth form;scape quantity;scape orientation;scape architecture;scape shape;scape length;scape width;bulb quantity"><b>Scape </b>persistent, solitary, occasionally 2 or more produced successively from single bulb, erect, solid, terete, 15–30 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, 5–20-flowered, conic, bulbils unknown;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spathe bract duration;spathe bract quantity;spathe bract architecture;spathe bract shape;apex shape">spathe bracts persistent, 2, 3–5-veined, lanceolate, apex acuminate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower shape;flower some measurement"><b>Flowers </b>stellate to campanulate, 4–8 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="tepal orientation;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal shape;tepal variability;tepal texture;tepal life cycle;margin architecture or shape;apex shape">tepals ± spreading, white or pale-pink (particularly on midribs), lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery and withering in fruit, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate;</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;anther coloration">anthers yellow or purple;</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 architecture">ovary crestless;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style arrangement or course or shape;stamen variability">style linear, equaling stamens;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape;stigma shape">stigma capitate, unlobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="pedicel size;pedicel some measurement">pedicel unequal, 10–20 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="seed-coat reflectance"><b>Seed-</b>coat dull;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="">cells ± smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="cell architecture or pubescence or relief;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Dry, rocky hills and mountains, usually in limestone soils
|elevation=700–3000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico
|discussion=<p>Allium longifolium (Kunth) Sprengel (1825), based on Schoenoprasum longifolium Kunth (1816), may be the same as A. kunthii; the type material is inadequate for definite determination.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium kunthii
|authority=G. Don
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Allium scaposum
|basionyms=Schoenoprasum lineare
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Dry, rocky hills and mountains, usually in limestone soils
|elevation=700–3000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc.
|publication year=1827
|special status=
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|genus=Allium
|species=Allium kunthii
|2n chromosome quantity=14
|anther coloration=purple;yellow
|apex shape=acute;acuminate
|blade architecture=solid
|blade length=10cm;21cm
|blade prominence or shape=flat
|blade shape=channeled
|blade width=1mm;3mm
|bulb coat coloration=pinkish;whitish
|bulb life cycle=new
|bulb quantity=single;1;4
|cell architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|cell prominence=obscure
|cell shape=elongate;rectangular;quadrate;elongate
|flower shape=stellate;campanulate
|flower some measurement=4mm;8mm
|leaf architecture or shape=sheathing
|leaf coloration=green
|leaf duration=persistent
|leaf quantity=2;5
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|margin shape=denticulate
|marking architecture=cellular
|marking fragility=delicate
|marking prominence=obscure
|outer coat coloration=brownish;not grayish
|outer coat coloration or pubescence or relief=striate
|outer coat texture=membranous
|ovary architecture=crestless
|parent bulb arrangement or growth form=clustered
|parent bulb length=1cm;2cm
|parent bulb prominence=disappearing
|parent bulb shape=ovoid
|parent bulb width=0.8cm;1.5cm
|pedicel size=unequal
|pedicel some measurement=10mm;20mm
|pollen coloration=yellow
|rhizome position or structure subtype=secondary
|rhizome presence=absent
|rhizome prominence=inconspicuous
|rhizome some measurement=less;2
|rhizome width=thick
|row architecture=regular
|row orientation=vertical
|scape architecture=solid
|scape architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|scape duration=persistent
|scape length=15cm;30cm
|scape orientation=erect
|scape quantity=2
|scape shape=terete
|scape width=1mm;3mm
|seed-coat reflectance=dull
|sheath size=not extended
|spathe bract architecture=3-5-veined
|spathe bract duration=persistent
|spathe bract quantity=2
|spathe bract shape=lanceolate
|stamen position=included
|stamen variability=equaling
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|stigma shape=unlobed
|style arrangement or course or shape=linear
|tepal coloration=pale-pink;white
|tepal life cycle=withering
|tepal orientation=spreading
|tepal shape=lanceolate
|tepal texture=papery
|tepal variability=equal
|umbel architecture=5-20-flowered
|umbel architecture or fragility=loose
|umbel duration=persistent
|umbel orientation=erect
|umbel shape=conic
|vein shape=denticulate
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