Biology:Allium achaium

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Allium achaium
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. achaium
Binomial name
Allium achaium
Boiss. & Orph.

Allium achaium is a plant species endemic to Greece.[1]

Allium achaium produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 25 mm long. Scape is up to 30 cm tall, round in cross-section, erect, about 5 mm across. Leaves are about the same length as the scape, 3 mm wide. Umbel has up to 45 flowers, the pedicels unequal in length. Flowers are bell-shaped, pale yellow tinged with pink. Anthers are yellow, ovary green.[2][3]

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium achaium
  2. Pierre Edmond Boissier & Theodhoros Georgios Orphanides. 1882. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae 5: 259.
  3. Sandro Bogdanovic´, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Brullo, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Carmelo Maria Masarella, & Christina Salmeri. 2011. Allium achaium Boiss. (Alliadceae), a critical species of Greek flora. Candollea 66:57-64.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16748155 entry