Allium pardoi, Loscos

82. A. pardoi Loscos , Trat. Pl. Arag. 1: 9 (1876).

Bulbs 3-4 cm in diameter, ovoid; outer tunic membranous, ultimately breaking into parallel fibres; bulblets numerous. Stem c. 90 cm, the apex nodding before anthesis. Leaves 4-5, up to 45 cm x 12 mm, linear, flat, keeled beneath, sheathing the lower of the stem; margin and keel minutely denticulate. Spathe 1 -valved, c. 4- 5 cm, beaked, caducous. Umbel 3-5 cm in diameter, subglobose or ovoid, many-flowered; pedicels unequal, the longest up to 30 mm. Flowers cylindrical; segments smooth, dull white, with green mid-vein, the outer c. 4-2 mm, lanceolate, the inner 2-8 mm, narrowly ovate, acute. Stamens exserted; outer 3 filaments simple, the inner 3 with the basal lamina slightly longer than the central cusp, the lateral cusps longer than the central cusp; anthers yellow. Near cultivated land. N.E. Spain (Teruel and Zaragozaprov.). * ÌAs. (?Algeria, TTunisia.)

Possibly a variant of 76.