Allium canariense subsp. obtusitepalum N. Friesen & P. Schoenfelder
Creators: name: Friesen, Nikolai
name: Herden, Tobias
name: Schoenfelder, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Amaryllidaceae
Allium
Allium canariense
Allium canariense (regel) n.friesen &amp; p.schoenfelder subsp. obtusitepalum (svent.) n.friesen &amp; p.schoenfelder

description: Allium canariense(Regel) N.Friesen & P.Schoenfelder subsp.obtusitepalum(Svent.) N.Friesen & P.Schoenfelder
comb. nov.
Bas.: Allium trifoliatum Cirillo subsp. obtusitepalum Sventenius (1960: 3)
Type (lectotype, here designated):— SPAIN. Canary Islands. Alegranza: Caldera, in humonis fissuris rupinus. Sat. Pauca, 14 April 1954, E.R. Sventenius s.n. (ORT!; Fig. 9).
Identification key to Allium canariense and its close relatives
1. Scape very short; umbel subsessile in a basal rosette of hairy leaves (Western and Central Mediterranean) ... Allium chamaemoly
- Umbel borne on conspicuous scape ................................................................................................................................................. 2
2. Leaves glabrous, often scabridulous at margin ................................................................................................................................ 3
- Leaves (at least sheath) hairy or long–ciliate at margin ................................................................................................................... 6
3. Scape triquetrous, rarely terete; umbel nodding in bud; perigone segments white; anthers pale green (Northern Mediterranean region to Egypt) ................................................................................................................................................ Allium neapolitanum
- Scape terete; umbel not nodding in bud ........................................................................................................................................... 4
4. Perigone segments unicolored pink, 9–13 mm long (Mediterranean) ....................................................................... Allium roseum
- Perigone segments white or white to flushed pink, up to 7.5 mm long ........................................................................................... 5
5. Perigone segments white, inflorescence sub-globose, leaves full-length ciliate (Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Morocco) ..... .............................................................................................................................................................................. Allium subvillosum
- Perigone segments white to flushed pink, inflorescence fascicular to sub-fascicular, leaves only slightly ciliate at the base (Canary Islands) ................................................................................................................................................................. Allium canariense
6. Pedicels 3–5 times as long as the white perigone segments; anthers usually brown. (Northern Mediterranean region to Egypt) ..... ............................................................................................................................................................................. Allium subhirsutum
- Pedicels 1.5–3 times as long as the white, often pink flushed perigone segments; anthers yellow. (France to Eastern Mediterranean) ...................................................................................................................................................................... Allium trifoliatum
description: Published as part of Friesen, Nikolai, Herden, Tobias & Schoenfelder, Peter, 2015, Allium canariense (Amaryllidaceae), a species endemic to the Canary Islands, pp. 1-20 in Phytotaxa 221 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.221.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4779617