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Allium crispum
Greene
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Allium peninsulare var. crispum
(Greene) Jeps.)
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
crinkled onion
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Allium peninsulare var. crispum
(Greene) Jeps.]
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Dale W. McNeal Jr. & T. D. Jacobsen in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Bulbs 1-3, increase bulbs absent or ± equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster, not clustered on stout primary rhizome, ovoid to globose, 0.9-1.5 × 0.9-1.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown or gray, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous, cells arranged in ± vertical rows, forming distinct herringbone pattern, transversely elongate, V-shaped, without fibers; inner coats white, cells obscure, forming distinct herringbone pattern or ± quadrate, transversely elongate, V-shaped. Leaves persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2-3, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, subterete or ± channeled, straight to arcuate, 13-30 cm × 1-3 mm, margins entire. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 15-35 cm × 1-3 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, loose, 10-40-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 4-6-veined, lance-ovate to ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. Flowers campanulate, 8-13 mm; tepals erect, rose-purple, lance-ovate to broadly ovate, unequal, outer longer and wider than inner, becoming rigid and keeled in fruit, margins of outer tepal entire, inner denticulate and distinctly crisped, apex acuminate, recurved-spreading at tips; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 3, central, 2-lobed, minute, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, 3-lobed; pedicel 10-35 mm. Seed coat dull; cells minutely roughened. 2n = 14. Flowering late Mar--Jun. Clay soils, including serpentine; 100--800 m; Calif. Allium crispum is known only from the inner south Coast Ranges.
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