Allium tardans, W. Greuter & Zahar.

70. A. tardans W. Greuter & Zahar. , Biol. Gallo-Hellen. 6: 51 (1975).

Bulbs 1-1-5 cm in diameter; outer tunics membranous, breaking into strips, continued upwards as a neck around base of stem. Stem 10-30 cm. Leaves 3-4, up to 16 cm x 0-5 mm, filiform, withered at anthesis, much longer than the stem, sheathing the lower | of the stem. Spathe 2-valved; valves persistent, unequal, one 2-5-4 cm, much longer than umbel, narrowly triangular at base, contracted above into a long appendage, the other valve 0-7-2 cm. Umbel 1-2-5 cm in diameter, fastigiate, 6- to 15-flowered. Perianth campanulate, erect; segments 5-6-5 x 1 -8-2 mm, pale pink, with green mid-vein, the outer narrowly oblong, the inner oblanceolate, rounded and almost truncate at apex. Stamens included or with anthers partly exserted; filaments 5-5- 5 mm, connate at base into an annulus 1 - 5 mm high; anthers pink before dehiscence, later whitish. Ovary narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, deeply sulcate. Capsule c. 4-5 mm. Rocky places, 400-800 m. • Kriti. Cr.