Allium bidentatum
| 砂韭 sha jiu | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Tribe: | Allieae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. bidentatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium bidentatum Fisch. ex Prokh. & Ikonn.-Gal. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Allium bidentatum is an Asian species of onion in the amaryllis family. It is native to Mongolia, Russia (Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Primorye), Kazakhstan, and northern China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Xinjiang ). It grows in well-lit places, sometimes in saline soil.[2]
Allium bidentatum produces very narrow cylindrical bulbs rarely more than 4 mm across. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are more or less round in cross-section, up to 15 cm long. Umbel is hemispherical, with red or red-violet flowers.[2][3][4][5][6]
Two varieties are recognized.[7]
- Allium bidentatum var. bidentatum - most of species range
- Allium bidentatum var. qinggouense Tolgor & Y.T.Zhao - Inner Mongolia
References
- ↑ The Plant List
- 1 2 Flora of China
- ↑ Fischer, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, Prokhanov, Jaroslav Ivanovic, & Ikonnikov-Galitzky, Nikolai Petrovic. 1929. Mat. Comm. Etude Republ. Mong. Touva & Bour. 2: 83.
- ↑ Sun, Qi-shi. 1995. Bulletin of Botanical Research, Harbin 15(3): 332.
- ↑ Hsu, Ying Peng. 1987. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica 7(4): 258–259, f. 1, 1.
- ↑ Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth. 1931. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 16(78): 144–145.
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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