Allium parciflorum

Allium parciflorum is a plant species known only from the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean.[2][3] It is common at all elevations on those two islands but unknown elsewhere.[4]

Few Flowered Garlic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. parciflorum
Binomial name
Allium parciflorum
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium moschatum Moris, 1827, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium pauciflorum Gren. & Godr.

Allium parciflorum has egg-shaped bulbs. Scape is up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are thin and tubular, about the same length as the scape but withering before flowering time. Umbels have very few bell-shaped flowers. Tepals are white to pale lavender with prominent dark purple midveins.[5][6][7][8]

Allium parciflorum is closely related to Allium lojaconoi, endemic to Malta.[9]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Viviani, Domenico. 1824. Florae Corsicae specierum novarum vel minus cognitarum diagnosis quam in Florae Italicae fragmenti alterius prodromum, Appendix page 2
  3. Tropicos, Allium parciflorum Viv.
  4. Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio paucifloro, Allium parciflorum'
  5. Viviani, Domenico. 1825. Appendix altera ad florae Corsicae Prodromus: 2.
  6. Flora di Sardegna, plantae endemicae, Allium parciflorum
  7. Allium parciflorum, Flora di Sardegna
  8. Acta Plantarum, Galleria della Flora italiana, Allium parciflorum Viv. color photos, captions in Italian
  9. Salvatore Brullo, E. Lanfranco, Pietro Pavone. 1982. Allium lojaconoi sp. nov. e sue affinita con Allium parciflorum Viv. Webbia 35(2): 295–306.
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