Allium plummerae

Allium plummerae

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Tribe: Allieae
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 2 Allium plummerae. Plant Abstracts. Arizona Game and Fish Department.
  2. 1 2 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. 1 2 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.

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