Allium lineare

Strict Onion
Aglio sottile
北韭 bei jiu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. lineare
Binomial name
Allium lineare
L. 1753 not Mill. 1768 nor Ten. 1811 nor Willd. ex Kunth 1843
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium christii Janka
  • Allium confertum Fisch.
  • Allium deflexum Willd.
  • Allium halleri Crantz
  • Allium tortuosum Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Porrum lineare (L.) Raf.

Allium lineare is a Eurasian species of wild onions with a wide range extending from France to Mongolia.[2][3][1][4][5][6]

Allium lineare has one or two bulbs each up to 15 cm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, very narrow, rarely more than 5 mm across. Flowers red.[2][7][8][9]

formerly included[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 2.0 2.1 Flora of China v 24 p 180
  3. Altervista Flora Italiana, Allium lineare
  4. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  5. Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K..
  6. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  7. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 295. in Latin
  8. line drawing of Allium lineare, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 185, 4-7
  9. photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, Allium lineare