Biology:Allium plummerae

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Allium plummerae

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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. plummerae
Binomial name
Allium plummerae
S.Wats.

Allium plummerae is a species of plant native to southern Arizona (Pima and Cochise Counties) in the United States and to Sonora in Mexico.[1] It is known by the common names Plummer's onion and Tanner's Canyon onion.[1] It grows on rocky slopes and stream banks in mountains regions at elevations of 1600–2800 m.[2][3][4]

Allium plummerae produces elongate bulbs up to 5 cm long but rarely more than 1.5 cm in diameter. Flowers are up to 10 mm across; tepals white or pink; anthers purple; pollen yellow.[2][5][6]

The epithet "plummerae" is in honor of one member of the expedition that collected those specimens, botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Allium plummerae. Plant Abstracts. Arizona Game and Fish Department.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Flora of North America v 26 p 242, Allium plummerae
  3. BONAP (Biota of North America Project) floristic synthesis,Allium plummerae
  4. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico, D.F.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Sereno Watson. 1883. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18: 195.
  6. Kearney, T. H. and R. H. Peebles. 1960. Arizona Flora. University of California Press, Berkeley.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15522101 entry