Allium tuncelianum

Tunceli garlic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. tuncelianum
Binomial name
Allium tuncelianum
(Kollmann) Özhatay, B.Mathew & Şiraneci [1]
Synonyms

A. macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum Kollmann
 (basionym) [1][2]

Allium tuncelianum is a species of wild onion which is endemic to the Munzur Valley in Tunceli, in eastern Turkey. It has a garlic odor and taste and is used locally like garlic.[3] Its common names include Tunceli garlic and Ovacik garlic.[3] Botanists have suggested this species may be a close relative of garlic, and perhaps an ancestor of garlic, but genetic analysis shows that it is actually more closely related to leek.[3] The plant is collected from the wild for use in cooking, a phenomenon that threatens the plant with extinction.[3]

Wild range of A. tuncelianum

References

  1. 1 2  Under the treatment of the name as Allium tuncelianum, this species was published in Kew Bulletin 50(4): 723 (1995) "Plant Name Details for Allium tuncelianum" Check |url= value (help). IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010. basionym: A. macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum Kollmann
  2.  This species was originally described and published, as Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum, in Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 41(2): 262. 1983. Edinburgh and Glasgow "Plant Name Details for Allium macrochaetum subsp. tuncelianum" Check |url= value (help). IPNI. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Ipek, M., et al. (2008). Genetic characterization of Allium tuncelianum: An endemic edible Allium species with garlic odor. Scientia horticulturae 115:409-15.
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