Biology:Allium umbilicatum

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Short description: Species of plant in the family Amaryllidaceae

Allium umbilicatum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Allium
Species:
A. umbilicatum
Binomial name
Allium umbilicatum
Boiss.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Allium aitchisonii Regel
  • Allium scabrellum Boiss. & Buhse

Allium umbilicatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.[3] It is a wild onion native to Pakistan , Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, and Tajikistan. It is a herbaceous perennial up to 40 cm tall, with an egg-shaped bulb up to 15 mm long. The leaves are tubular. The umbels are hemispherical and densely crowded with many pink flowers.[1][4][5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Flora of Pakistan
  2. The Plant List
  3. "Allium umbilicatum Boiss.". The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d.. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:529079-1. 
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. Pierre Edmond Boissier. 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae ser. 2, 4: 113.

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