Allium obliquum

lop-sided onion Scharfer Gelblauch 高葶韭 gao ting jiu Лук косой, Уксун
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Species:	A. obliquum
Binomial name
Allium obliquum L.
Synonyms[1]
Allium exaltatum Kar. & Kir. ex Ledeb. Allium luteum F.Dietr. Allium porrum Georgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 Allium ramosum Jacq. 1781, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 Camarilla obliqua (L.) Salisb. Cepa obliqua (L.) Moench Geboscon obliquum (L.) Raf. Moenchia obliqua (L.) Medik.

Allium obliquum, common name lop-sided onion or twisted-leaf onion, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a range extending from Romania to Mongolia.^[1] It is also widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Allium obliquum produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 3 cm long. Scape is up to 100 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 20 mm across. Umbels are spherical, with many yellow flowers crowded together.^[2][10]

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Flora of China v 24 p 187 高葶韭 gao ting jiu Allium obliquum
3. Dave's Garden/125536/]
4. Brezhnev, D.D., Korovina, O.N. 1981. Wild relatives of cultivated plants in the flora of the USSR. Leningrad: Kolos, pp.96-97 (in Russian). Vvedensky, A.I. 1935. Onion - Allium L. (Flora of the USSR, vol. IV.) Leningrad: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, p.175
5. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
6. Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
7. Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K..
8. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
9. Lazkov, G.A. & Turdumatov, N.K. (2010). New and rare species of the genus Allium (Alliaceae) for the flora of Kyrgyzstan. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 95: 1637-1639.
10. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.