Allium hymenorhizum

Species of flowering plant

Allium hymenorhizum
At the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Denmark
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Polyprason
Species:
A. hymenorhizum
Binomial name
Allium hymenorhizum
Ledeb.[1][2]
Synonyms[3]

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

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

  1. ^ Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von. 1830. Flora Altaica 2: 12–13
  2. ^ Tropicos, Allium hymenorhizum Ledeb.
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 188 北疆韭 bei jiang jiu Allium hymenorhizum
  5. ^ Biodiversity of Altai-Sayan Ecoregion, Allium hymenorhizum Ledeb., 1830. Fl. Altaic. 2: 12 - Лук плевокорнещный
  6. ^ Karl Friedrich von Ledebour. 1830. Flora Altaica 2: 12–13.
  7. ^ photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype ofAllium hymenorhizum
  8. ^ Boissier, Pierre Edmond. 1854. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae [Leipzig] ser. 1, 13: 32.
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Taxon identifiers
Allium hymenorhizum
Allium hymenorrhizum