Allium longispathum

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Syn: A. dentiferum

Bulb ovoid, 1.5-2.5 × 1-2 cm, with many bulbils, inner tunics brown, outer tunics dark brown and long decurrent in the lower part of the stem. Stem rigid, 40-90 cm long, covered by leaf sheaths up to ½ of its length. Leaves 5-6, 20 × 2-4 cm, semicylindrical and fistulous, with ribs on abaxial surface. Inflorescensce compact, fastigiate-ovoid, many-flowered; pedicels unequal 1.5-4.0 cm long. Spathe valves unequal, long appendiculate, larger 9-12 nerved, 5-18 cm long, smaller 7-9 nerved, 4-10 cm long. Perigon campanulate with tepals yellow-greenish or rarely purple-greenish, suffused with brown, 5.5-6.0 mm × 2.5-3.0 mm, obtuse, usually apiculate. Stamens included or anthers slightly exserted; filaments white, linear-subulate, outer 2.0-2.5 mm long, inner 2.8-3.0 mm long, connate below in annulus 1.2-1.5 mm high with entire or bifid interstaminal teeth. Anthers yellowish, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 1.3-1.4 × 1.0-1.1 mm, obtuse. Ovary cylindrical, narrowed at apex, papillose in distal part, 4.0-4.5 × 2.0 mm. Capsule obovoid, 5-6 × 4.5 mm. Flowering: June-July.

Habitat: Ruderal places, road sides, cultivated fields, and meadows.

General Distribution: Mediterranean element. Well distributed throughout the Mediterranean.