Allium hirtovaginatum
| Allium hirtovaginatum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. hirtovaginatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium hirtovaginatum Kunth | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Allium hirtovaginatum is a species of wild onion native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and the Balearic Islands to Turkey.[2][1]
Allium hirtovaginatum produces an egg-shaped bulb. Scape is up to 50 cm, round in cross-section, thin and flexible. Leaves are very thin and hair-like. Umbel has only a few flowers. Flowers bell-shaped, the tepals white with dark purple midvein. Ovary is covered with long hairs.[3][4][5][6]
References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio moscato, Allium hirtovaginatum
- ↑ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differntiis et Synonymis. Stutgardiae et Tubingae 4: 412.
- ↑ Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 151 and 154, as Allium cupani subsp. anatolicum and Allium cupani subsp. hirtovaginatum
- ↑ Vindt, Jacques. 1953. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 33: 121
- ↑ Halácsy, Eugen von. 1904. Conspectus Florae Graecae 3: 253. as Allium cupani var. hirtovaginatum
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