Allium aaseae |
Allium denticulatum |
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Aase's onion, South Idaho onion |
tooth onion, tooth wild onion |
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Bulbs | 2–10+, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–2 × 0.8–1.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brownish, membranous, with or without obscure reticulations, cells isodiametric or transversely elongate, ± contorted, without fibers; inner coats white, pink, or red, cells obscure, ± quadrate. |
1–2, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid to ± globose, 1–1.4 × 0.1–0.14 cm; outer coats enclosing single bulb, reddish brown, membranous, usually lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers; inner coats pale brown to white, cells obscure, quadrate. |
Leaves | usually deciduous with scape, green at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, flat to ± terete, channeled, 7–25 cm × 1–4 mm, margins entire or minutely denticulate. |
persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 1, basally sheathing, sheath not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, terete, 12–30 cm × 1–3 mm. |
Scape | usually forming abcission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature, frequently breaking at this level after pressing, solitary, erect, solid, slightly flattened, with or without narrow, sometimes crenulate-denticulate wings, 5–12 cm × 1–2 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 5–15 cm × 1–2 mm. |
Umbel | persistent, erect, compact, 5–25-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 8–11-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex obtuse to acuminate. |
persistent, erect, compact, 5–30-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 4–6-veined, lance-ovate to ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
Flowers | campanulate, 6–9 mm; tepals erect, bright pink fading to white with dark midribs, rarely white, oblong to lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins obscurely to distinctly serrulate-denticulate, apex obtuse to acuminate; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crestless; style included, linear; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 3–10 mm. |
urceolate, 9–17 mm; tepals erect, purple, lanceolate to lance-ovate, unequal, becoming rigid and ± keeled in fruit, margins minutely denticulate at least distally, apex acute, ± straight at tip, inner slightly shorter and narrower than outer; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 6, prominent, ± triangular, margins entire to notched or irregularly papillose; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, 3-lobed, lobes slender, recurved; pedicel 5–25 mm. |
Seed | coat shining; cells smooth. |
coat dull or shining; cells minutely roughened. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Allium aaseae |
Allium denticulatum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | Flowering mid Apr–mid Jul. |
Habitat | Coarse, sandy soil and gravelly river benches | Sandy, rocky soil, Techachapi Mountains and desert slopes, western Mojave Desert, California |
Elevation | 800–1100 m (2600–3600 ft) | 900–1600 m (3000–5200 ft) |
Distribution |
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Discussion | Allium aaseae is known only from Ada and southern Gem counties and Rebecca Sand Hill, Washington County, and is considered of conservation concern by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 268. | FNA vol. 26. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
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Synonyms | A. fimbriatum var. denticulatum | |
Name authority | Ownbey: Res. Stud. State Coll. Wash. 18: 19, fig. 18. (1950) | (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal: Aliso 13: 414. (1992) |
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