Allium passeyi

N. H. Holmgren & A. H. Holmgren

Brittonia 26: 309, figs. 1, 4. 1974.

EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 242. Mentioned on page 227.

Bulbs 2–3+, not rhizomatous, ovoid, 1–2 × 1.2–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, light-brown, reticulate, fibrous; inner coats whitish to light-brown, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure. Leaves persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3, sheathing; blade solid, flat, ± falcate, 10–20 cm × 3–6 mm, margins entire. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± winged-angled, mostly 10–20 cm × 1–2.5 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, compact, 8–27-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–4, mostly 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate to caudate. Flowers campanulate, 7–9 mm; tepals erect, light pink, narrowly lanceolate to lanceovate, becoming callous-keeled, persistent and permanently investing capsule, margins entire, apex acuminate, inner shorter and narrower than outer, outer strongly keeled and gibbous at base; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary obscurely crested; processes 6, central, ± erect, rounded, minute, to 1 mm, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 10–18 mm. Seed-coat shining; cells smooth, each with minute, central papilla.


Phenology: Flowering Jun.
Habitat: Shallow, stony, lithosolic soil over dolomitic limestone, hilltops
Elevation: 1400–1600 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Allium passeyi is known only from Box Elder County.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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

... more about "Allium passeyi"
versatile +  and dorsifixed +
cordate +  and linear +
acuminate +  and caudate +
Dale W. McNeal Jr. +  and T. D. Jacobsen +
N. H. Holmgren & A. H. Holmgren +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
dilated +
straight +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
falcate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
conspicuous +
1;several +
not rhizomatous +
1cm +  and 2cm +
2 +  and 3 +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
roughened +  and smooth +
elongate +
1400–1600 m +
connate-coroniform +  and dilated +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
campanulate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
loculicidal +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
Shallow, stony, lithosolic soil over dolomitic limestone, hilltops +
paired +, paniculate +  and racemose +
whitish +  and light-brown +
shorter and narrower +
persistent +
crested +
many;several +
spreading +  and erect +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
membranous +
zygomorphic +  and actinomorphic +
Flowering Jun. +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
persistent +
10cm +  and 20cm +
winged-angled +  and terete +
1mm +  and 2.5mm +
wind-distributed +
1 +  and many +
obovoid +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
adnate +  and free +
1 +  and several +
Allium passeyi +
species +
persistent +
distinct +
callous-keeled +, narrowly lanceolate +  and lanceovate +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
narrower +
8-27-flowered +
persistent +
hemispheric-globose +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +