Allium kokanicum
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | Allium subg. Melanocrommyum |
| Species: | A. kokanicum
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Allium kokanicum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ^ Flora of China v 24 p 190
External links
[edit]- Allium kokanicum inflorescence picture from the University of Osnabrück, Germany
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