Allium delicatulum
| 迷人薤 mi ren xie | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. delicatulum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium delicatulum Siev. ex Schult. f. | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Allium delicatulum is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Western Siberia, Xinjiang, and Kazakhstan.[2] It grows in open grasslands and deserts.[3]
Allium delicatulum produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scapes are up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are round and hollow, shorter than the scapes. Flowers have white or pink tepals with dark red midveins.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ The Plant List
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 1 2 Flora of China v 24 p 198. 迷人薤 mi ren xie Allium delicatulum
- ↑ Roemer, Johann Jakob, & Schultes, Josef August. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1133.
- ↑ Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
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