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Allium hirtovaginatum

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Allium hirtovaginatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. hirtovaginatum
Binomial name
Allium hirtovaginatum
Kunth (1843)
Subspecies[1]
  • Allium hirtovaginatum subsp. hirtovaginatum
  • Allium hirtovaginatum subsp. samium Brullo, Pavone & Salmeri
Synonyms[2]
  • Allium cupani subsp. anatolicum Stearn
  • Allium cupani var. hirtovaginatum (Kunth) Halácsy
  • Allium cupani f. hirtovaginatum (Kunth) Vindt
  • Allium cupani subsp. hirtovaginatum (Kunth) Stearn
  • Allium moschatum d'Urv. 1822, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium pisidicum Boiss. & Heldr.

Allium hirtovaginatum is a species of wild onion native to the Mediterranean region, ranging from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia to the Balearic Islands, Italy, southern Greece, southern and western Turkey, and Cyprus.[1][3][2]

Allium hirtovaginatum produces an egg-shaped bulb. Scape is up to 50 cm, round in cross-section, thin and flexible. Leaves are very thin and hair-like. Umbel has only a few flowers. Flowers bell-shaped, the tepals white with dark purple midvein. Ovary is covered with long hairs.[4][5][6][7]

Two subspecies are accepted.[1]

  • Allium hirtovaginatum subsp. hirtovaginatum – northwestern Africa, Balearic Islands, Italy, southern Greece, southern and western Turkey, and Cyprus
  • Allium hirtovaginatum subsp. samium Brullo, Pavone & SalmeriSamos in the eastern Aegean

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Allium hirtovaginatum Kunth". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio moscato, Allium hirtovaginatum
  4. ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differentiis et Synonymis. Stutgardiae et Tubingae 4: 412.
  5. ^ Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 151 and 154, as Allium cupani subsp. anatolicum and Allium cupani subsp. hirtovaginatum
  6. ^ Vindt, Jacques. 1953. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 33: 121
  7. ^ Halácsy, Eugen von. 1904. Conspectus Florae Graecae 3: 253. as Allium cupani var. hirtovaginatum
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