Allium amplectens |
Allium passeyi |
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narrow-leaf onion, slim-leaf onion |
passey's onion |
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Bulbs | 1–15+, increase bulbs absent or ± equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster, not clustered on stout primary rhizome, ovoid to ± globose, 0.6–1.5 × 0.6–1.3 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous, cells in ± vertical rows, forming irregular herringbone pattern, transversely elongate, V-shaped, without fibers; inner coats usually dark red, sometimes white to pink, cells obscure, quadrate. |
2–3+, not rhizomatous, ovoid, 1–2 × 1.2–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, light brown, reticulate, fibrous; inner coats whitish to light brown, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure. |
Leaves | persistent, withering from tip at anthesis, 2–4, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, subterete or ± channeled, 10–36 cm × 0.5–2 mm, margins entire. |
persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3, sheathing; blade solid, flat, ± falcate, 10–20 cm × 3–6 mm, margins entire. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 15–50 cm × 3–5 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± winged-angled, mostly 10–20 cm × 1–2.5 mm. |
Umbel | shattering after seeds mature, each flower deciduous with its pedicel as a unit, erect, compact, 10–50-flowered, hemispheric, bulbels unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 6–13-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex short-acuminate. |
persistent, erect, compact, 8–27-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–4, mostly 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate to caudate. |
Flowers | stellate, 5–9 mm; tepals spreading at anthesis, white to pink, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery and connivent over capsule, margins entire, apex acute; stamens included; anthers yellow or purple; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 6, lateral, ± prominent, ± rectangular, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 4–16 mm. |
campanulate, 7–9 mm; tepals erect, light pink, narrowly lanceolate to lance-ovate, becoming callous-keeled, persistent and permanently investing capsule, margins entire, apex acuminate, inner shorter and narrower than outer, outer strongly keeled and gibbous at base; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary obscurely crested; processes 6, central, ± erect, rounded, minute, to 1 mm, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 10–18 mm. |
Seed | coat dull; cells minutely roughened. |
coat shining; cells smooth, each with minute, central papilla. |
2n | = 14, 21, 28. |
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Allium amplectens |
Allium passeyi |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Jun. |
Habitat | Clay soils, including serpentine, dry slopes, and open plains | Shallow, stony, lithosolic soil over dolomitic limestone, hilltops |
Elevation | 0–1800 m (0–5900 ft) | 1400–1600 m (4600–5200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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UT |
Discussion | All three chromosome races of Allium amplectens are widespread. The triploids are achiasmatic, causing a breakdown in the first meiotic division. This is followed by a normal second division resulting in pollen dyads that are, presumably, nonfunctional; seeds are produced by apomixis. The diploids and tetraploids produce normal pollen, in tetrads, that appears to be functional. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Allium passeyi is known only from Box Elder County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 262. | FNA vol. 26, p. 242. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. acuminatum var. gracile, A. attenuifolium, A. attenuifolium var. monospermum, A. monospermum, A. occidentale, A. serratum | |
Name authority | Torrey: Pacif. Railr. Rep. 4(5): 148. (1857) | N. H. Holmgren & A. H. Holmgren: Brittonia 26: 309, figs. 1, 4. (1974) |
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