Allium staticiforme, Sibth. & Sm.

65. A. staticiforme Sibth. & Sm. , FI. Graec. Prodr. 1: 225 (1809).

Bulbs 0-8-l-5 cm in diameter; outer tunics coriaceous, often breaking at apex into parallel fibres. Stem 7-30 cm, often curved in lower part. Leaves 2-4, up to 13 cm x 0-5-2 mm, filiform, fistular, glabrous at base, sheathing the lower of the stem. Spathe 2-valved; valves unequal, shorter than to longer than the umbel, ovate at base, contracted above into a slender appendage, the larger 1-3 cm, the smaller 0-5-2 cm. Umbel 1 -5-2-5 cm in diameter, hemispherical, usually dense, 10- to 60- flowered; pedicels 5-12 mm, almost equal. Perianth obovoid; segments 3-3-5 x 1 -4-1-6 mm, elliptical, pink, with red midvein ( forma staticiforme ), or white, with green or lilac mid-vein ( forma flexuosum (D’Urv.) Zahar. ), elliptical, the inner slightly wider than the outer, rounded at apex. Stamens slightly exserted; filaments 3-5-4 mm; anthers red or yellow. Ovary obovoid, shortly stipitate. Capsule c. 3 mm. • S'. Greece, S. Aegean region. Cr Gr.