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|accepted_name=Allium bisceptrum
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|place=351, plate 37, figs. 1–3. 1871
|year=1871
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium bisceptrum var. palmeri
|authority=(S. Watson) A. Cronquist
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium bisceptrum var. utahense
|authority=M. E. Jones
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium palmeri
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium bisceptrum
|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 bisceptrum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 230, 257
|treatment_page=page 256
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Bulbs </b>1–7+, commonly producing either cluster of stalked, basal bulbels or filiform rhizomes to 1 dm, terminated by bulbels, rhizomes generally lost when specimens are collected, ovoid, 1–2 × 0.6–1.8 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, light brown to gray, membranous, obscurely cellular-reticulate, cells rectangular, walls minutely sinuous, vertical, varying to irregular, all sinuous, without fibers; inner coats white to pink, cells obscure, quadrate. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, green at anthesis, 2–5, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, flat, broadly channeled, 8–30 cm × 1–13 mm, margins entire. <b>Scape</b> persistent, solitary or clustered 1–3, erect, solid, terete, 10–30(–40) cm × 1–5 mm. <b>Umbel</b> persistent, erect, loose, 15–40-flowered, globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 3–4-veined, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. <b>Flowers</b> stellate, 7–10 mm; tepals spreading, lilac to white, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, not carinate, margins entire, apex acuminate, not involute; stamens included; anthers purple; pollen yellow; ovary conspicuously crested; processes 6, central, distinct, flattened, triangular, margins papillose-denticulate; style included, linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed; pedicel 10–20 mm, often becoming flexuous and deflexed in fruit. <b>Seed</b> coat shining; cells each with minute, central papilla. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Meadows and aspen groves, less commonly on open slopes in mountains
|elevation=1100–3000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Two varieties of <i>Allium bisceptrum</i> have been recognized. Where their ranges overlap (central Utah and central <i>Nevada</i>), the putative varieties cannot be distinguished confidently except by chromosome number.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium bisceptrum
|author=
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Allium bisceptrum var. palmeri;Allium bisceptrum var. utahense;Allium palmeri
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Meadows and aspen groves, less commonly on open slopes in mountains
|elevation=1100–3000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|publication year=1871
|special status=
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|genus=Allium
|species=Allium bisceptrum
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