Allium callimischon

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Allium callimischon
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. callimischon
Binomial name
Allium callimischon

Allium callimischon is a plant species native to southwestern Turkey and to southern Greece (including Peloponnese and the Island of Crete). [1] It is grown in other countries as an ornamental because of its attractive flowers. [2]

Allium callimischon is a perennial herb up to 30 cm tall. It has small bulbs and thread-like leaves. Flowers are borne in an umbel, white with thin purple midveins on the tepals. [3] [4] [5]

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pacific Bulb Society, Allium species one
  3. "Rare Plants UK, Allium callimischon". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  4. Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. 1834. Linnaea 9: 140
  5. Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 154.