Biology:Allium polyanthum
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| many-flowered garlic | |
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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. Allium |
| Species: | A. polyanthum
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| Binomial name | |
| Allium polyanthum Schult. & Schult. f.
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Synonymy
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Allium polyanthum, called the many-flowered garlic, is a Mediterranean species of wild onion native to Spain , France , Italy, Morocco, and Tunisia.[2] It is widely cultivated for its edible and potently aromatic bulbs and foliage.[3]
Allium polyanthum produces an egg-shaped bulb, often with small bulblets around the base. Scape can be up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are flat and broadly linear, tapering at the tip. Flowers are numerous and small, white or pink.[4][5][6]
References
- ↑ The Plant List
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio con molti fiori, Allium polyanthum
- ↑ Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema vegetabilium: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species. Cum characteribus differentiis et synonymis. Editio nova, speciebus inde ab editione XV. Detectis aucta et locupletata. Stuttgardtiae 7(2): 1016.
- ↑ O.Bolòs & al. 1990. Flora Manual del Països Catalans 1213, Allium ampeloprasum subsp. polyanthum
- ↑ Jauzein, Philippe & Tison, J.-M. 2005.Lejeunia n.s., 178: 12, Allium porrum subsp. polyanthum
Wikidata ☰ Q3393791 entry
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