Allium platyspathum

Allium platyspathum is an Asian species of wild onion. It has been reported from Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Altay Krai, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan. It grows in damp locations at elevations of 1900–3700 m.[2][3][4][5]

宽苞韭 kuan bao jiu
Лук широкочехольный
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. platyspathum
Binomial name
Allium platyspathum
Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium amblyophyllum Kar. & Kir.
  • Allium platyspathum var. majus Ledeb.
  • Allium alataviense Regel

Allium platyspathum usually produces a single egg-shaped bulb up to 20 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are flat, linear, up to 20 mm across, about the same length as the scape. Umbel is a densely packed cluster of pink or lilac flowers.[2][6]

Varieties[1][2]
formerly included[1]

Allium platyspathum var. falcatum Regel, now called Allium carolinianum Redouté

References

  1. Kew World checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of China 24 p 189 宽苞韭 kuan bao jiu Allium platyspathum
  3. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  4. Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 2: 1-454. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
  5. Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
  6. Fischer, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, & Meyer, Carl Anton von. 1841. Enumeratio Plantarum Novarum 1: 7.
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