Allium izmirense

Tiresoğanı

Bulb ovoid to subglobose, 0.6-1.5 × 0.4-1 cm, outer tunics papyraceous, light to dark brown; inner tunic straw colored to very pale pinkish-purple; bulblets absent. Scape 3.5-10 cm long above ground and 1-2 mm wide, erect, terete, glabrous, rarely slightly hairy, greenish, sometimes with slightly purplish tinged, densely punctate cylindrical, 0.6-1 mm in diameter, covered by leaf sheaths for 1/3-1/2 of its length; sheaths densely pubescent. Leaves 2-3, fistulose, 4.5-13 cm long, pubescent; hairs very dense at the middle of the leaf, step by step reduced to apex; sometimes near apex glabrous, hairs mostly slightly retrorse-pubescent. Spathe persistent, with two unequal valves, erect to erecto-patent; valves generally longer than umbel, very rarely shorter; the longer valve 1.4-3 cm long, 5-nerved; shorter valve 0.5-1.4 cm long, 3-nerved; attachment oppo­site. Inflorescence lax, globose to fastigiate, 5-20 flowered; pedicels unequal, 0.5-1.5 cm long, pinkish-purple to purplish; bracts present, membranous; umbel l-2 × 1-2 cm; bulbil absent. Perigone campanulate, with equal outer and inner tepals. Tepals 2.5-4 × 1.5-2 mm, pale pinkish-purple to whitish-purple, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, with dark purplish midrib, glabrous, acute at apex. Stamens simple, shorter to slightly exserted tepals; filaments purplish, some­times whitish at apex, subulate, 2.5-3.8 mm long, connate at base into an annulus c. 1 mm high; anthers yellow, ellipsoid, rounded at apex, 0.7-1 × 0.5-0.7 mm. Ovary widely elliptic-globose, greenish, stipitate, 1.5-2-1.5-2 mm; style 2-3 mm long, whitish. Capsule widely obovate to subglobose, 2.5-5 × 2.5-5 mm long, straw colored.

Endemic.