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The Iranian species of Allium subg. Melanocrommyum sect. Megaloprason (Alliaceae)
Author(s) -
Fritsch Reinhard M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
nordic journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1756-1051
pISSN - 0107-055X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-1051.1996.tb00211.x
Subject(s) - reticulate , allium , biology , scape , bulb , botany , taxon , flora (microbiology) , sect , key (lock) , ecology , bacteria , genetics
Analyses of newly collected, living materials from the “classical locations” led to taxonomic conclusions differing from the last comprehensive treatment by Wendelbo in the “Flora Iranica”: Allium bakhtiaricum is a good species characterised by reticulate bulb tunics; it is rather widely distributed in the Zagros mountain range. In Allium jesdianum reticulate bulb tunics are missing, and it occurs only in the mountains near Yazd. Both taxa possess a scape which is prominently ribbed in its lower part. On the contrary, Allium stipitatum (syn. A. hirtifolium ) has a scape completely smooth in the living stale, and bulb tunics disintegrating in fibre‐like parts. Allium altissimum , which is only doubtfully recorded for Iran, and some other taxa formerly included within sect. Megaloprason by Wendelbo, were not seen as living plants; their classification is shortly discussed. A new key to sect. Megaloprason s. str. is given.