Allium delicatulum

Allium delicatulum is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Western Siberia, Xinjiang, and Kazakhstan.[2] It grows in open grasslands and deserts.[3]

迷人薤 mi ren xie
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. delicatulum
Binomial name
Allium delicatulum
Siev. ex Schult. f.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Allium dolonkarense Regel
  • Allium pusillum Willd.
  • Allium stenophyllum Regel ex Herder
  • Allium viridulum Kar. & Kir.
  • Allium willdenowii Kunth

Allium delicatulum produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scapes are up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are round and hollow, shorter than the scapes. Flowers have white or pink tepals with dark red midveins.[3][4][5]

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Flora of China v 24 p 198. 迷人薤 mi ren xie Allium delicatulum
  4. Roemer, Johann Jakob, & Schultes, Josef August. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1133.
  5. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
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