Allium capitellatum

Bulb ovoid to spheroidal, 0.8–2 × 0.8–2.2 cm; outer tunics coriaceous, dark brownish to dirty brown; inner tunics dirty white, without bulblets. Scape 7–25 cm × 0.5–1.0 mm, cylindrical, green to purplish, often purplish above. Leaves 2–4, cylindrical, fistulose, filiform, 0.5–1.5 mm broad, as long as or shorter than scape , lower spirally twisted when dried, uppermost one minute, scabrid, leaf sheath up to lower 2/3 of the stem, few swollen at base of lamina. Spathe 2-valved, valves almost of the same length, straw colored membranous, reticulate, each valve 3-veined, persistent, shorter than umbel, 3–10 mm × 2–5 mm, ± equal to pedicel, cucullate-apiculate. Umbel globose, spherical to hemispherical, 1.5–2.8 cm diameter, lax, 7–35 flowered; pedicels smooth, ±unequal, white; 2–15 mm long, bracteolate, bracte lanceolate, white, membranous, 1–2 mm × 0.5–0.8 mm. Perigone oblong-campanulate; tepals white with light green and purplish midvein , smooth, 4.0–5.2 × 5.0–8.0 mm; outer tepals ovoid-oval to elliptic, 3.0–4.0 mm × 1.4–2.1 mm acute at the apex; inner tepals oblong-lanceolate, 3.2–4.2 mm × 1.7–2.0 mm, ±cucullate, acute at the apex, equal or slightly longer than outer tepals. Stamens long-exserted, ±1.5 × perigone, 4–6 mm; all filaments filiform, with or without small teeth at base. Anthers 1.0–1.5 mm × 0.5–0.8 mm, oblong, rounded at apex, yellow . Pistil 3.5–4.0 mm; style 1.5 × 1.9 mm, filiform, included; ovary tetragonal to globose, ±short stipitate at base, green, whitish-green, thiny strigillose, divided into 6 segments and segments in two slices, ±12 equal slices . Capsule ovoid-cordate to subcordate, 3.5–4.7 mm × 3.0–4.0 mm; seeds 2.0–2.5 × 1.5–2.0 mm, black.

Iran.