Allium tolmiei (Tolmie's onion) is a plant species native to Idaho, eastern and central Oregon, southeastern Washington, northwestern Nevada and northeastern California. It occurs on mountains and scrublands at elevations of .http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Allium%20tolmiei.png BONAP (Biota of North America {Program) floristic synthesis, Allium tolmiei It was discovered by and named for Dr. William Fraser Tolmie.
Allium tolmiei produces ovoid to oblique bulbs up to long, the bulbs generally disappearing at flowering time but then reforming later. Flowers are bell-shaped, up to across; tepals white to pink with reddish midribs; anthers purple or yellow; pollen yellow.Baker, John Gilbert. 1876. Botanical Magazine pl. 6227.Traub, Hamilton Paul. 1945. Herbertia 12: 68.Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1969. Vascular Cryptogams, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons. 1: 1–914. In C. L. Hitchcock Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Taxonomy The botanist John Gilbert Baker scientifically described a new species in the Allium genus in 1876, which he named Allium tolmiei . Though it was described as a variety of Allium douglasii in 1947 by Hamilton Paul Traub, it is generally accepted as a species. Together with its genus it is classified in the Amaryllidaceae family and has two varieties according to Plants of the World Online.
Allium tolmiei var. tolmiei - scapes tall; stamens shorter than tepals Allium tolmiei var. persimile Ownbey (syn Allium persimile (Ownbey) Traub & Ownbey) - scapes tall; stamens longer than sepals—known only from the Seven Devils Mountains in IdahoOwnbey, Francis Marion. 1950. Research Studies of the State College of Washington 18(1): 29–32, f. 13.Traub, Hamilton Paul, & Ownbey, Francis Marion. 1967. Plant Life 23: 110.
Allium tolmiei has seven synonyms of the species or its two varieties.
Table of Synonyms Name Year Rank Synonym of: Notes Allium anceps var. aberrans 1902 variety subsp. tolmiei = het. Allium cusickii 1879 species subsp. tolmiei = het. Allium douglasii var. tolmiei 1947 variety A. tolmiei ≡ hom. Allium persimile 1967 species subsp. persimile ≡ hom. Allium platyphyllum 1916 species subsp. tolmiei = het. Allium pleianthum 1879 species subsp. tolmiei = het. Allium tolmiei var. platyphyllum 1950 variety subsp. tolmiei = het. Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym ; = heterotypic synonym
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