Biology:Allium gilgiticum
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Short description: Species of plant
| Gilgit onion | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Butomissa |
| Species: | A. gilgiticum
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| Binomial name | |
| Allium gilgiticum F.T. Wang & Tang
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Allium gilgiticum is an Asian species of onion,[1] a rare and quite possibly extinct species. It is known only from the type collection, gathered in the 1930s in Gilgit District in Pakistan , high in the Himalayas, part of the Kashmir region long disputed with India . The plant is about 50 cm tall, with a hemispheric umbel of purple flowers.[2][3][4][5][6]
References
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Flora of Pakistan
- ↑ Wang, Fa Tsuan & Tang, Tsin. 1937. Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology; Botany. Peiping [Beijing] 7: 294.
- ↑ Nasir, E. (1975). Flora of Pakistan 83: 1-31. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
- ↑ Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- ↑ Singh, N.P. & Sanjappa, M. (eds.) (2006). Alliaceae, Liliaceae, Trilliaceae & Uvulariaceae. Fascicles of Flora of India 23: 1-134. Botanical Survey of India, New Delhi
Wikidata ☰ Q15519393 entry
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