Biology:Allium tel-avivense

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Short description: Species of plant

Allium tel-avivense
"Allium tel-avivense" at the Freiburg Botanical Garden
Allium tel-avivense at the Freiburg Botanical Garden
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: Allium subg. Melanocrommyum
Species:
A. tel-avivense
Binomial name
Allium tel-avivense
Eig
Synonyms[1]

Allium aschersonianum subsp. tel-avivense (Eig) Oppenh.

Allium tel-avivense is a plant species found in Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula. It is a bulb-forming perennial with a small umbel of only a few flowers. Tepals are pink, and the ovary is large, green and conspicuous.[2][3][4][5] Its name comes from the city of Tel Aviv.

References

  1. "Allium tel-avivense Eig". http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296769. Retrieved 29 June 2016. 
  2. "Flora of Israel Online". http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?action=specie&specie=ALLTEL. 
  3. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Eig, Alexander. 1931. Plants of Palestine 75.
  5. Oppenheimer, Hillel Reinhard. 1940. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève, Sér. 2 31: 189, Allium aschersonianum subsp. tel-avivense

Wikidata ☰ Q12203989 entry