Allium stamineum

Yaban sarmısağı

Syn: A. daninianum

Bulb ovoid, c. 0.75-1.5 cm diam.; outer tunics blackish or ash-grey, membranous, torn into strips. Stem 10-35 cm, flexuous, usually stout. Leaves 3-4, filiform, 0.5-1 mm broad, often as long as stem, glabrous. Valves of spathe unequal, persistent, lanceolate at base, contracted above into a slender appendage, much longer than umbel. Umbel 3-5 cm diam., usually many-flowered, lax, effuse. Pedicels very unequal, several times longer than perianth. Perianth shortly hemispherical-campanulate; segments purplish-pink, 3.5-5 mm, outer oblong, rounded at apex, inner narrowly ovate, obtuse. Filaments 1.25-1.5 x as long as perianth. Anthers yellow. Ovary subglobose or globose, sessile. Capsule globose-trigonous, 3 mm, depressed. 2n=16. Fl. 6-7. Edges ofPinus woods, very dry steep rock faces, dry stony slopes, fallow fields, 80-1600 m.

N. Greece, W. Syria, Iraq, Iran. E. Medit. element?