Allium spurium
(Redirected from Allium saxicola)
| 岩韭 yan jiu | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Rhizirideum |
| Species: | A. spurium
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| Binomial name | |
| Allium spurium G. Don 1827 not Schult. & Schult.f. 1830
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Allium spurium is an East Asian species of wild onion native to Russia (Amur Oblast, Buryatiya, Yakutia, Zabaykalsky Krai), Mongolia and China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia).[2][1]
Allium spurium produces 1 or 2 bulbs, each up to 15 mm in diameter. Plant spreads by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are flat, narrowly linear, about 3 mm wide. Scapes are up to 40 cm tall. Umbel is hemispheric, with many pink or lilac flowers.[2][3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 187
- ^ Don, George. 1827. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 6: 59.
- ^ Friesen, Nikolai Walterowich. Flora Sibirica (Araceae-Orchidaceae) 68 (1987), as Allium dauricum
- ^ Kitagawa, Masao. 1938. Report of the Institute of Scientific Research, Manchoukuo. [Tairiku kagakuin kenkyu hokoku] 2: 288., as Allium saxicola