Allium perdulce

S. V. Fraser

Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 42: 124. 1940.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 241. Mentioned on page 227.

Bulbs 2–20+, without basal bulbels, 1–2.5 × 1.2–2.8 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, dark-brown, reticulate, cells coarse-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells regular, vertically elongate, walls not sinuous. Leaves persistent, green at anthesis, 3–5, sheathing; blade solid, flat, channeled, 8–30 cm × 1–2 (–3) mm, margins entire. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, ± terete, 10–20 cm × 1–3 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, loose, 5–25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 3–7-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. Flowers urceolate, 7–10 mm; tepals erect, white or pale-pink with deep pink midribs to deep rose, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming callous-keeled and permanently investing capsule, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute; stamens included; anthers yellow or purple; pollen yellow; ovary crestless; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed; pedicel 3–17 mm, ± 2 times perianth at anthesis, elongating in fruit. Seed-coat dull or shining; cells minutely roughened.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Tepals deep rose, aging to purple; n Texas and e New Mexico to se South Dakota and adjacent Iowa Allium perdulce var. perdulce
1 Tepals white to light pink, aging pink; trans-Pecos Texas. Allium perdulce var. sperryi

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

... more about "Allium perdulce"
purple +  and yellow +
versatile +  and dorsifixed +
cordate +  and linear +
acute +, obtuse +  and acuminate +
Dale W. McNeal Jr. +  and T. D. Jacobsen +
S. V. Fraser +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
dilated +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
straight +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
channeled +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
conspicuous +
1;several +
1cm +  and 2.5cm +
2 +  and 20 +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
dark-brown +
roughened +  and smooth +
elongate +
c North America +
connate-coroniform +  and dilated +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
urceolate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
loculicidal +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
paired +, paniculate +  and racemose +
persistent +
open +  and coarse-meshed +
gray +  and brown +
crested;3-lobed +
many;several +
spreading +  and erect +
2 times perianth +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
membranous +
zygomorphic +  and actinomorphic +
Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. +
persistent +
10cm +  and 20cm +
1mm +  and 3mm +
shining +  and dull +
wind-distributed +
1 +  and many +
obovoid +
adnate +  and free +
1 +  and several +
lobed +, unlobed +  and capitate +
Allium perdulce +
species +
rose;pale-pink;white +
persisting +
distinct +
callous-keeled +  and lanceolate +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
narrower +
5-25-flowered +
persistent +
hemispheric-globose +
not sinuous +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +