新疆蒜 xin jiang suan
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: Allium subg. Melanocrommyum
Species:
A. roborowskianum
Binomial name
Allium roborowskianum

Allium roborowskianum is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang and Mongolia. It grows at elevations of 1000–1300 m.[1]

Allium roborowskianum produces one round bulb up to 25 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 50 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat. linear, shorter than the scape, up to 15 mm across. Umbels are hemispherical, crowded with many white or lilac flowers.[1][2][3]

Some authors consider Allium sinkiangense F.T.Wang & Y.C.Tang to be synonymous with A. roborowskianum,[1] but the World Checklist accepts them as distinct species.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Flora of China v 24 p 201.
  2. ^ Regel, Eduard August von. 1887. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 10(1): 359–360, pl. 8, f. 4.
  3. ^ Wang, Fa Tsuan & Tang, Yan Cheng. 1980. Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 14: 269, 286 (Addenda), pl. 97. (as Allium sinkiangense)
  4. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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