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|accepted_name=Allium brevistylum
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|place=350. 1871
|year=1871
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium brevistylum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Allium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Allium brevistylum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 228
|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Bulbs </b>2–4, terminating thick, iris-like rhizome, elongate, 2–3 × 0.6–1 cm; outer coats enclosing single bulb, grayish or brownish, membranous, minutely striate, cells in parallel vertical rows, narrow, elongate, not fibrous-reticulate, fibers persistent, parallel, few, coarse; inner coats whitish, cells narrowly vertically elongate. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, green at anthesis, 2–5, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil level; blade solid, flat, 10–40 cm × 2–8 mm, margins entire. <b>Scape</b> persistent, solitary, erect, solid, flattened and narrowly winged distally, 20–60 cm × 1.5–4 mm. <b>Umbel</b> persistent, erect, loose, 7–20-flowered, subhemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 3–5-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acute. <b>Flowers</b> narrowly urceolate, 10–13 mm; tepals erect, pink, lanceolate, ± equal, withering in fruit, margins entire, apex acuminate, midribs somewhat thickened; stamens included, ca. 1/2 as long as tepals; anthers yellow; pollen light yellow; ovary crestless; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, distinctly 3-lobed; pedicel 8–35 mm, elongating and becoming stout and curved in fruit. <b>Seed</b> coat dull or shining; cells each with minute, central papilla, or obscurely and minutely roughened. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Swampy meadows and along streams, rarely on wooded slopes
|elevation=2200–3400 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Allium brevistylum</i> is found only in the Rocky Mountains.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium brevistylum
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Swampy meadows and along streams, rarely on wooded slopes
|elevation=2200–3400 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|publication year=1871
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_435.xml
|genus=Allium
|species=Allium brevistylum
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