Allium ledebourianum

Лук Ледебура
硬皮葱 ying pi cong
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Tribe: Allieae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. ledebourianum
Binomial name
Allium ledebourianum
Schultes & J.H. Schultes
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Allium uliginosum Ledeb. 1830, illegitimate homonym of Allium uliginosum G. Don 1827
  • Allium ledebourianum var. purpurascens Regel

Allium ledebourianum is an Asian species of wild onion native to central and northeastern Asia: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (Altay Krai, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin), and China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang).[1] It occurs at elevations up to 1800 m elevation.[3][4][5][6]

Allium ledebourianum has a cluster of narrow bulbs up to 20 mm across. Scapes are up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric, densely crowded with many purple flowers; tepals pale purple with darker purple midvein.[3][7][8][9][10]

formerly included[1]

Allium ledebourianum var. maximowiczii (Regel) Q.S.Sun, now called Allium maximowiczii Regel


References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ The Plant List
  3. 1 2 Flora of China v 24 p 196 硬皮葱 ying pi cong Allium ledebourianum
  4. ↑ Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  5. ↑ Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
  6. ↑ Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  7. ↑ photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of Allium ledebourianum
  8. ↑ line drawing of Allium ledebourianum, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 217, 5-7
  9. ↑ Roemer & Schultes. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1029.
  10. ↑ Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1830. Flora Altaica 2: 16.
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