Bulb 1-1.5 cm diam., ovoid; outer tunics membranous, greyish-black, splitting lengthways; stem straight or flexuose; leaves 2-4, 0.5-1 mm wide, nearly as long as or slightly exceeding the inflorescence, filiform, smooth, sheathing the lower 1/2 to 1/3 of the stem; spathe 2-valved, persistent, the valves wide at the base, tapering gradually into long slender appendages, longer than the umbel; umbel 3-7 cm diam., oblong to fastigiate, the pedicels at first pendent then becoming patent and finally erect; pedicels unequal, 1-4 cm at anthesis; perianth campanulate; segments 3.5-5 mm, pink or pale purple,
usually with a darker reddish midvein, oblong or oblong- oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute or rounded; filaments simple, expanded at the base and subulate at the apex, shortly exserted; anthers fully exserted, yellow; style exserted; capsule c. 3 mm, depressed-subglobose, trigonous.
Sinai, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Iran.
Dry slopes and rocky places.
Perennial.
Height: 10-35 cm.
Allium stamineum is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae family.[2] It is an onion found in the Middle East (from the islands of the eastern Aegean south to Saudi Arabia and east to Iran).[1][3]
Two names have been coined for taxa at the varietal and subspecific levels for plants now classified by the World Checklist[1] as distinct species.
Allium stamineum is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae family. It is an onion found in the Middle East (from the islands of the eastern Aegean south to Saudi Arabia and east to Iran).
formerly includedTwo names have been coined for taxa at the varietal and subspecific levels for plants now classified by the World Checklist as distinct species.
Allium stamineum var. alpinum Post - now called Allium rupicola Boiss. ex Mouterde Allium stamineum subsp. decaisnei (C.Presl) Kollmann - now called Allium decaisnei C.Presl
