Allium maackii

马克韭 ma ke jiu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. maackii
Binomial name
Allium maackii
(Maxim.) Prokh. ex Kom. & Aliss.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Allium lineare var. maackii Maxim.
  • Allium prokhanovii (Vorosch.) Barkalov
  • Allium splendens subsp. prokhanovii Vorosch.

Allium maackii is a species of wild onion native to northeastern Asia (Heilongjiang, Amur Oblast, Primorye, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands). It is found on cliff and steep hillsides at elevations of 200–500 m.[3][2]

Allium maackii has cylindrical to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scapes are up to 50 cm tall. Leaves are flat and narrow. Umbel has many flowers crowded together, each rose pink with a dark purple midstripe.[3][4][5][6][7]

References

  1. The Plant List
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. 1 2 Flora of China v 24 p 181.马克韭 ma ke jiu Allium maackii
  4. Komarov, Vladimir Leontjevich, & Alissova-Klobukova, Eugenija Nikolaevna. 1931. Key Pl. Far East. USSR 1: 366.
  5. Maximowicz, Carl Johann. 1859. Mémoires Presentes a l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg par Divers Savans et lus dans ses Assemblées 9: 282.
  6. Barkalov, Vyacheslav Yuryevich. 1987. Sosud. Rast. Sovet. Dal'nego Vostoka 2: 385
  7. Voroschilov, Vladimir Nikolaevich. 1984. Byull. Glavn. Bot. Sada (Moscow) 130: 35
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