Allium ahmet-tirasii

Alanya soğanı

Bulb 8–13 × 7–11 mm, broadly ovoid, composed with 1 or 2 equal bulblets; without a collar; outer tunic yellowish-grey to pale brownish-orange, membranous, without fibers or only at base or apex of outer tunic; inner tunic orange or pinkish-orange, sometimes with few inconspicuous veins. Stem 14–25 cm long from the bulb, 7–14 cm long from the base , ca. 1 mm wide, erect or slightly flexuous, glabrous, greenish-yellow, sometimes with purplish tinged at the base. Leaves 2, cylindrical to slightly semicylindrical, surface glabrous or slightly scabrid on margins; 10–15 veined, 5–10.5 cm long, ca. 1 mm wide, shorter to somewhat longer than scape; sheeting 1/3–1/2 of the stem, glabrous. Umbel 12–40-flowered, 1.7–2.7 × 1.5–2.5 cm, fastigiate to hemispherical. Spathe 1 or 2-valved, if 2-valved and then valves unilateral, 1.5–3.5 × 0.3–0.5 cm, slightly shorter to slightly longer than umbel, 6–7 veined  or 3–4 veined ; 2-valved ones mostly incised from base trough to apex . Pedicel 0.4–2.3 cm long, greenish-yellow, glabrous. Bracteoles few, scarious, 1–2 mm long. Perigone 3–4.5 mm long, glabrous, greenish-yellow with pale greenish-purple midvein; inner and outer tepals equal or subequal; inner tepals ovate to elliptic, acute; outer tepals oblong to elliptic, obtuse. Stamen slightly longer or subequal to tepals; filaments 3–4 mm long , subulate, equal or slightly shorter than tepals, whitish; annulus ca. 0,5 mm; anthers ca. 1 mm long, pale yellow; pollen grains creamy. Ovary 2.5–3 × 1–2 mm, oblong-elliptical, keeled, yellowish; style 1.5–2 mm long, before fertilization shorter than perigone, slightly whitish. Capsule 3.5–4 × 3–4.5 mm, globose or subglobose. Seeds 3–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm, semilunar, black, dominant shape of testa cells elliptic or tetra- to hexagonal, undulation of anticlinal walls straight to strip-like, periclinal wall with several big verrucae. Pollen grain elliptical, monosulcate, 30.23–32.87 × 15.78–16.45 μm, striate-rugulate-perforate ornamentation, yellowish.

Flowering in July and August, Fruiting in August.

Endemic.