Biology:Allium kokanicum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Allium kokanicum
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. kokanicum
Binomial name
Allium kokanicum
Regel[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Allium caricoides Regel
  • Allium filifolium Regel
  • Allium hoeltzeri Regel

Allium kokanicum is an Old World bulb geophyte, native to mountains parts of Central Asia. It is a bulb-forming perennial up to 20 cm tall with pale red to pale purple flowers.[3][4]

Distribution

Allium kokanicum is found growing wild from northern Pakistan and northeast Afghanistan, throughout Pamirian Tajikistan, the Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang, to Altaic eastern Kazakhstan.[3]

References

  1.  This species was originally described and published in Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaniceskago Sada. Acta Horti Petropolitani, iii. II. (1875) 104. St. Petersburg. The type specimen was collected from somewhere in the region of Turkestan. "Plant Name Details for Allium kokanicum". IPNI. http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=528257-1. Retrieved August 10, 2010. 
  2. The Plant List
  3. 3.0 3.1 {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Allium kokanicum | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = August 10, 2010 }}
  4. Flora of China v 24 p 190

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4268509 entry