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Allium cuthbertii
Small
No occurrences found
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
striped garlic
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Dale W. McNeal Jr. & T. D. Jacobsen in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Bulbs usually solitary, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1-1.8 × 1-1.2 cm; outer coats enclosing single bulb, grayish, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate, regular. Leaves persistent, withering by anthesis, 2, sheathing; blade solid, flat, linear, 12-35 cm × 3-6 mm, margins entire or denticulate. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± 3-4-angled, 20-40 cm × 1-3.5 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, loose, 10-25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2-3, 5-7-veined, lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. Flowers ± stellate, 7-9 mm; tepals spreading to reflexed, white to pinkish or purple, lanceolate, ± equal, remaining thin and becoming strongly reflexed in fruit, margins entire, apex acute; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary conspicuously crested; processes 6, central, irregularly contorted; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed; pedicel 14-45 mm. Seed coat shining; cells each with obscure, central papilla. 2n = 14.
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