Allium mardinense

Zınnar soğanı

Bulb ovoid, 0.5–1.5 cm diameter, outer tunics brown, papyraceous, longitudinal tears on base; creates a 1–5 cm collar on stem; inner tunics membranous, whitish; without bulblets; stem 20–35 cm long, zig-zag to curved, ribbed, glabrous. Leaves 2–3, flat and channeled, with inrolled margins, surface glabrous; margin gla­brous to slightly scabrit at base; as long as or slightly exceeds inflorescence; leaf sheathing ca. 1/2 of stem. Umbel more or less fastigiate, lax, 1.5–1.7 cm diameter, 1.5–2 cm long, without bulbils. Spathe 2.5–4.2 mm long, 1-valved, caducous, cream to pale yellowish. Pedicel glabrous, unequal, 4–14 mm long; outer pedicels shorter than inner. Bracteoles present, joined around outer pedicels. Perigon oblong-campanulate, 3–4.5 mm diam, 4–5 cm long. Tepals almost equal, outer tepal shorter and wider than inner tepal; outer tepal 4–4.5 × 2.5–3 mm, ovoid, oblong-ovoid, concave, densely papillose-scabrid at outer surface, purplish-green to pur­plish, middle vein prominent, brown to dark pur­plish, acute to obtuse-acute at apex; inner tepals 4.5–5 × 1.8–2 mm; like a narrow vase shape, hooded at apex, glabrous, mid-vein prominent, pale purplish to pale pinkish-white, glabrous, flat, obtuse-acute to truncate. Stemens of 2 types, slightly scabrid at base; outer filament 4–4.5 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm wide at base, lanceolate slightly shorter to slightly longer to outer tepal; inner filament 3.5–4 × 1.2–1.5 mm, basal lamina oblong–ovate, 2–2.5 mm long, median cusps 0.75–1 mm long, lateral cusps ca. 1.5–2 mm, lateral cusps longer than median cusps, not exceeding perigon. Anthers purple, 1–1.1 × 0.5– 0.75 mm, oblong. Pistil 4–5 mm long; ovary 2.5–2.8 × 1.5–2 mm, ovate, pale green; stylus 1.5–2 mm, white, as long as perigon or slightly longer. Capsule ca. 3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, globose-oblong to ovate; valves emarginate; seed black, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Flowering in June– July.

Endemic.