Allium elaounii: a new species of A. sect. Pseudoscorodon (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae, Allieae) from Kroumirian mountains, Tunisia Author Mokni, Ridha El Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences ‘ A’, Laboratory of Botany, Cryptogamy and Plant Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy of Monastir, Avenue Avicenna, Monastir- 5000, University of Monastir, Tunisia. & Department of Forestry, Laboratory of Forest Ecology, National Research Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests, Ariana- 2080, IRESA, University of Carthage, Tunisia. text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-02-15 533 4 205 215 journal article 20636 10.11646/phytotaxa.533.4.3 da3fd6cd-6a8c-4164-bcb3-7882375fff34 1179-3163 6091379 Identification key to the North African species of Allium sect. Pseudoscorodon 1. Tepals and stamen filaments white to pink or purplish ......................................................................................................................2 - Tepals and stamen filaments yellow to greenish-yellow....................................................................................................................3 2. Leaves almost totally densely hairy. Perigone cup-shaped, white to white-pink with tepals 8.0– 8.2 mm long and 3.2–3.3 mm wide ............................................................................................................................................................................ A. seirotrichum - Leaves sparsely hairy in the sheath. Perigone cylindrical-urceolate, pink-lilac with tepals 5.0–7.0 mm long and 1.0–2.0 mm wide .................................................................................................................................................................................... A. trichocnemis 3. Tepals yellow with pale green with greenish-brownish midvein. Leaves 3-4, glabrous on the sheaths and at the base of the blade.. ........................................................................................................................................................................................... A. elaounii - Tepals (thickened at the base) greenish-yellow with green midvein. Leaves 4, hairy on the sheaths and at the base of the blade ..... ................................................................................................................................................................................. A. valdecallosum