Allium aeginiense
Appearance
Allium aeginiense | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
Subfamily: | Allioideae |
Genus: | Allium |
Species: | A. aeginiense
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Binomial name | |
Allium aeginiense |
Allium aeginiense is a plant species endemic to Greece.[1] It is known only from the area near Meteora in the Thessaly region.[2]
Allium aeginiense produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 25 mm across. Leaves are flat, green, very narrow, up to 10 cm long but rarely more than 1.5 mm wide, covered with hairs up to 2 mm long. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 20 cm tall, hairless, bearing an umbel of up to 40 flowers. Flowers are bell-shaped, pinkish-purple, with yellow anthers and a green ovary.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Allium aeginiense
- ^ a b Salvatore Brullo, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, & Maria Carmen Terrasi. 2008. Allium aeginiense Brullo, Giusso & Terrasi, a new species from Greece. Candollea 63:197-203.