Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Alliaceae Borkh.
Genus
Allium L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Allium neapolitanum Cirillo (1788)
Synonymy:
  • = Allium sieberianum Schult.f.
  • = Allium inodorum Aiton (1789)
  • ≡ Nothoscordum inodorum (Aiton) Nicholson (1885)
  • = Allium album Santi (1795)
  • = Allium candidissimum Cav. (1802)
  • = Allium sulcatum DC. (1805)
  • = Allium lacteum Smith (1809)
  • = Allium cowanii Lindl. (1823)
Vernacular Name(s):
Daffodil garlic; Flowering onion; Naples garlic; Naples onion
 Description

Bulb globose, 1–2 cm diam., with non-stipitate offset bulbs. Leaves 2–3, c. 25 × 1–2 cm, flat, margins finely toothed or ciliate. Scape 20–60 cm high, sheathed at base only, subtriquetrous with 2 angles acute, almost winged, the third more obtuse. Umbels 5–8 cm diam., many- flowered, ± flat-topped; pedicels ± 3 times length of flowers, rigid; spathe-valve 1, persistent. Flowers white, 8–10 mm long, ± 10mm diam., campanulate; segments ovate-elliptic, obtuse. stamens c. ½ length of perianth; filaments simple without appendages. Capsule c. 7 mm long, ± globose, papery, few-seeded. Seeds black, angled, 2–3 mm long.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.

 Bibliography
Stearn, W.T. 1986: Nothoscordum gracile, the correct name of N. fragans and the N. inodorum of authors (Alliaceae). Taxon 35(2): 335–338.