Allium kokanicum
| Allium kokanicum | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Tribe: | Allieae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. kokanicum |
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| Allium kokanicum Regel [1] | |
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Allium kokanicum is an Old World bulb geophyte, native to mountains parts of Central Asia. It is a bulb-forming perennial up to 20 cm tall with pale red to pale purple flowers.[3][4]
Distribution
Allium kokanicum is found growing wild from northern Pakistan and northeast Afghanistan, throughout Pamirian Tajikistan, the Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang, to Altaic eastern Kazakhstan.[3]
References
- ↑ This species was originally described and published in Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaniceskago Sada. Acta Horti Petropolitani, iii. II. (1875) 104. St. Petersburg. The type specimen was collected from somewhere in the region of Turkestan. "Plant Name Details for Allium kokanicum". IPNI. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ↑ The Plant List
- 1 2 GRIN (June 18, 2009). "Allium kokanicum information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ↑ Flora of China v 24 p 190
External links
- Allium kokanicum inflorescence picture from the University of Osnabrück, Germany
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