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Allium spurium

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岩韭 yan jiu
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Rhizirideum
Species:
A. spurium
Binomial name
Allium spurium
G. Don 1827 not Schult. & Schult.f. 1830
Synonyms[1]

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

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  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 187
  3. ^ Don, George. 1827. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 6: 59.
  4. ^ Friesen, Nikolai Walterowich. Flora Sibirica (Araceae-Orchidaceae) 68 (1987), as Allium dauricum
  5. ^ Kitagawa, Masao. 1938. Report of the Institute of Scientific Research, Manchoukuo. [Tairiku kagakuin kenkyu hokoku] 2: 288., as Allium saxicola