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Allium cuthbertii
Allium cuthbertii
Small
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Striped Garlic
Stephanie Harvey
FNA
Resources
Dale W. McNeal Jr. & T. D. Jacobsen in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Bulbs usually solitary, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1-1.8 × 1-1.2 cm; outer coats enclosing single bulb, grayish, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate, regular. Leaves persistent, withering by anthesis, 2, sheathing; blade solid, flat, linear, 12-35 cm × 3-6 mm, margins entire or denticulate. Scape persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± 3-4-angled, 20-40 cm × 1-3.5 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, loose, 10-25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2-3, 5-7-veined, lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. Flowers ± stellate, 7-9 mm; tepals spreading to reflexed, white to pinkish or purple, lanceolate, ± equal, remaining thin and becoming strongly reflexed in fruit, margins entire, apex acute; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary conspicuously crested; processes 6, central, irregularly contorted; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed; pedicel 14-45 mm. Seed coat shining; cells each with obscure, central papilla. 2n = 14.
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University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
Stephanie Harvey
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
University of Florida Herbarium
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