Allium sultanae-ferhanii

Bulb ovoid, 0.8–1.4 cm diam, 1.2–2 cm long; a single, double or triple scape emerging from a bulb; outer tunics brownish to blackish, lon­gitudinal fibrillar, creating a 0.3–0.5 cm collar on stem; inner tunics membranous, yellowish to orange; without bulblets; scape 19–42 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, cylindrical, erect or erect-ascending, glabrous, covered with a waxy layer; usually more than 1/2 of total length covered by leaf sheaths. Leaves 3–4, 11–35 × 0.1– 0.15 cm, semi-cylindrical, canaliculate, scabrid, exceeding inflorescence. Leaves and sheaths gla­brous. Proximal part of leaf sheath purplish. Spathe persistent with two unequal valves, longer than umbel; lower part of valves narrow triangular, upper part thin-pointed; base width 2.5–4.0 mm; 3–5-nerved, margins entire. Short valve 2.2–8 cm long, longer valve 7.2–15.0 cm long. Inflorescence expanded, lax, 4.0–6.5 cm in diam., with 27–67 flowers, pedicels unequal, bracteolate, 1.5–3.7 cm long, covered with a waxy layer, purplish. Perigone campanulate, tepals dull purple, covered with a waxy layer, inner tepal dirty-white with green middle veins. Outer tepal purple with dark purple midveins. Tepals equal, 1.5–2 × 4–5 mm, elliptic-ovate, acute at apex. Stamens subulate, exserted, with simple whitish filaments; filaments 3.8–4.1 mm long, base 0.6–0.65 mm wide, connected below into an annulus 0.9–1.0 mm long. Anthers yellow, oblong, 1.0–1.1 mm long, 0.6–0.7 mm wide, apex rounded. Ovary globose, papillose throughout, purple, 2.0 × 2.5 mm wide, 1.9– 2.2 mm long with a 0.5–0.75 mm long stipe; style equal to or longer than anthers, 3.0–3.5 mm long, white, stigma tip pointed to blunt. Cap­sule trivalved, globose with reticulate surface; 5.0 × 5.2 mm, valves globose, emerginate, ses­sile, 5 mm wide, base 1.1–1.5 mm wide, style remnant 1.5–1.6 mm long. Seed oblong, black, 4.2–4.5 × 2.7–2.9 mm.

Endemic.