Allium hymenorhizum
| Allium hymenorhizum | |
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| At the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Denmark | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Polyprason |
| Species: | A. hymenorhizum
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| Binomial name | |
| Allium hymenorhizum | |
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Allium macrorrhizum Boiss. | |
Allium hymenorhizum is a Eurasian species of wild onion in the amaryllis family. It grows at elevations of 1100–2700 m[4][5]
Allium hymenorhizum has bulbs up to 15 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 90 cm tall. Leaves are flat, narrow, less than 6 mm wide but almost as long as the scape. Umbel is densely packed with many red flowers.[4][6][7][8]
Varieties
[edit]Varieties include:[3]
- Allium hymenorhizum var. dentatum J.M.Xu - Xinjiang
- Allium hymenorhizum var. hymenorhizum - European Russia, Altay Krai, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Xinjiang, Mongolia
- Formerly included[3]
Allium hymenorhizum var. tianschanicum (Rupr.) Regel, now called Allium tianschanicum Rupr.
References
[edit]- ^ Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von. 1830. Flora Altaica 2: 12–13
- ^ Tropicos, Allium hymenorhizum Ledeb.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 188 北疆韭 bei jiang jiu Allium hymenorhizum
- ^ Biodiversity of Altai-Sayan Ecoregion, Allium hymenorhizum Ledeb., 1830. Fl. Altaic. 2: 12 - Лук плевокорнещный
- ^ Karl Friedrich von Ledebour. 1830. Flora Altaica 2: 12–13.
- ^ photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype ofAllium hymenorhizum
- ^ Boissier, Pierre Edmond. 1854. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae [Leipzig] ser. 1, 13: 32.
External links
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