Allium platyspathum
| 宽苞韭 kuan bao jiu Лук широкочехольный | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Tribe: | Allieae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. platyspathum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium platyspathum Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey. | |
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Allium platyspathum is an Asian species of wild onion. It has been reported from Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Altay Krai, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan. It grows in damp locations at elevations of 1900–3700 m.[2][3][4][5]
Allium platyspathum usually produces a single egg-shaped bulb up to 20 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are flat, linear, up to 20 mm across, about the same length as the scape. Umbel is a densely packed cluster of pink or lilac flowers.[2][6]
- Allium platyspathum subsp. amblyophyllum (Kar. & Kir.) N.Friesen -- scape 40–100 cm long, flowers pink; leaves 10–20 mm wide - Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Altay Krai
- Allium platyspathum subsp. platyspathum—scape up to 25 cm long; flowers lilac, leaves less than 8 mm wide - Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Altay Krai, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan
- formerly included[1]
Allium platyspathum var. falcatum Regel, now called Allium carolinianum Redouté
References
- 1 2 3 Kew World checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 1 2 3 Flora of China 24 p 189 宽苞韭 kuan bao jiu Allium platyspathum
- ↑ Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
- ↑ Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 2: 1-454. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
- ↑ Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
- ↑ Fischer, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, & Meyer, Carl Anton von. 1841. Enumeratio Plantarum Novarum 1: 7.
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