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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Allium speculae
|accepted_authority=Ownbey & Aase
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=61: 70. 1959
|year=1959
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium speculae
|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 speculae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 227
|treatment_page=page 242
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="bulb quantity;bulb architecture;bulb shape;bulb length;bulb width"><b>Bulbs </b>1–5+, not rhizomatous, ovoid, 1–5 × 1–2 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="outer coat coloration;outer coat coloration;outer coat architecture or coloration or relief;bulb quantity;cell architecture;cell architecture">outer coats usually enclosing single bulb, grayish or brownish, reticulate, cells very fine-meshed, open;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="inner coat coloration;cell shape;cell architecture">inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate, regular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf coloration;leaf quantity;leaf architecture or shape"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, green at anthesis, 3+, sheathing;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade architecture;blade prominence or shape;blade shape;blade length;blade width;margin architecture or shape">blade solid, flat, channeled, 10–30 cm × 1–2 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 shape;scape length;scape width"><b>Scape </b>persistent, solitary (sometimes 2 in cultivated plants), erect, terete, 20–30 cm × 1–3 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="umbel duration;umbel orientation;umbel architecture or arrangement;umbel architecture;umbel shape"><b>Umbel </b>persistent, erect, compact, 10–15-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbels 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, 3, usually 1-veined, lanceolate, ± equal, apex long-acuminate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower shape;flower some measurement"><b>Flowers </b>± campanulate, 5–6 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="tepal orientation;tepal coloration;tepal arrangement or shape;tepal variability;ovary width;ovary life cycle;margin architecture or shape;apex shape;apex shape or vernation">tepals widely spreading, pinkish, elliptic, ± equal, remaining thin and withering over ovary, margins entire, apex obtuse, involute at tip;</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 light yellow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pollen coloration">pollen white to light 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 orientation;process shape;process shape;margin architecture or shape">processes 6, central, horizontally spreading, flattened, triangular, 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 shape">stigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="pedicel some measurement">pedicel 9–20 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="seed-coat reflectance"><b>Seed-</b>coat shining;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="central papilla size">cells each with minute, central papilla.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="2n chromosome quantity">2n = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun.
|habitat=On gneiss “flat-rocks” and sandy soil of Piedmont
|elevation=300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium speculae
|authority=Ownbey & Aase
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun.
|habitat=On gneiss “flat-rocks” and sandy soil of Piedmont
|elevation=300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1959
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_422.xml
|genus=Allium
|species=Allium speculae
|2n chromosome quantity=14
|anther coloration=light yellow
|apex shape=obtuse;long-acuminate
|apex shape or vernation=involute
|blade architecture=solid
|blade length=10cm;30cm
|blade prominence or shape=flat
|blade shape=channeled
|blade width=1mm;2mm
|bulb architecture=not rhizomatous
|bulb length=1cm;5cm
|bulb quantity=single;1;5
|bulb shape=ovoid
|bulb width=1cm;2cm
|cell architecture=regular;open;fine-meshed
|cell shape=elongate
|central papilla size=minute
|flower shape=campanulate
|flower some measurement=5mm;6mm
|inner coat coloration=whitish
|leaf architecture or shape=sheathing
|leaf coloration=green
|leaf duration=persistent
|margin architecture or shape=entire;entire;entire
|outer coat architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|outer coat coloration=brownish;grayish
|ovary life cycle=withering
|ovary shape=crested
|ovary width=thin
|pedicel some measurement=9mm;20mm
|pollen coloration=white;light yellow
|process orientation=spreading
|process position=central
|process quantity=6
|process shape=triangular;flattened
|scape architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|scape duration=persistent
|scape length=20cm;30cm
|scape orientation=erect
|scape shape=terete
|scape width=1mm;3mm
|seed-coat reflectance=shining
|spathe bract architecture=1-veined
|spathe bract duration=persistent
|spathe bract quantity=3
|spathe bract shape=lanceolate
|spathe bract variability=equal
|stamen position=included
|stamen variability=equaling
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|stigma shape=3-lobed
|style arrangement or course or shape=linear
|tepal arrangement or shape=elliptic
|tepal coloration=pinkish
|tepal orientation=spreading
|tepal variability=equal
|umbel architecture=10-15-flowered
|umbel architecture or arrangement=compact
|umbel duration=persistent
|umbel orientation=erect
|umbel shape=hemispheric-globose
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